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- noun The state or condition of being
unadventurous .
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Examples
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The reasons for this include the economics of the restaurant business, unadventurousness of U.S. palates, and the difficultly in obtaining Mexican ingredients in the U.S.
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No such barrier exists, I came to understand, save in man's spiritual unadventurousness.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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No such barrier exists, I came to understand, save in man's spiritual unadventurousness.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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Writers of belles lettres who are rash enough to admit that their whole life is not one constant preoccupation with adored members of the opposite sex, and who even countenance La Rochefoucauld's remark that very few people would ever imagine themselves in love if they had never read anything about it, are gravely declared to be abnormal or physically defective by critics of crushing unadventurousness and domestication.
Overruled George Bernard Shaw 1903
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But given his past moderation and unadventurousness, his decisive vote to impose gay marriage on California was deeply uncharacteristic.
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