Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being disagreeable. Unsuitableness; incongruity; contrariety.
[Rare.]
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state or quality of being disagreeable.
- n. countable A disagreeable behaviour, occurrence, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant
- n. an ill-tempered and offensive disposition
Examples
“His disagreeableness was the one present pain, but behind it was undefined consternation, for she perceived that, at any rate, he did not think”
“Anthea and Cyril each had a private struggle with that inside disagreeableness which is part of all of us, and which is sometimes called the Old Adam -- and both were victors.”
“The Charlie Brown Theory of Personality, James C Kaufman PhD posits the theory that Lucy represents "disagreeableness".”
“His unrelenting disagreeableness he sometimes tended a local bar and would throw out friends who didn't spend enough makes this account somewhat less compelling that it might have been—you can dislike someone for the length of a magazine feature, but it requires real stamina to stomach Larry Hillblom through a whole book.”
“The problem is, many managers often don't realize they reward disagreeableness," says Dr. Livingston.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hey, You! Mean People Earn More, Study Finds
“Meckerei —to use a pejorative noun—can be laced with other qualities, like humor, but usually it amounts to something like shared disagreeableness, and I have written it off as a local oddity.”
“Maybe saying, "awesome", is like spitting away bad news, debate, or any hint of disagreeableness.”
“UNM's Miller, for instance, complains that critics "have convinced a substantial portion of the educated public that evolutionary psychology is a pernicious right-wing conspiracy," and complains that believing in evolutionary psychology is seen "as an indicator of conservatism, disagreeableness and selfishness.”
“Social intelligence...seems rather well predicted by a combination of general intelligence and extraversion, plus agreeableness (when empathy pays) or disagreeableness (when exploitation pays).”
Geoffrey Miller on Personality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Greed, like other forms of disagreeableness, entered the world when Adam and Eve were disobedient.”
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