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  • noun unmusicality

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unmusical +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Now, if ‘musicalness and unmusicalness’ had not been a property essentially inhering in man, these changes would have been

    On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

  • "Thy lips are like a thread, like a thre-eda o-of scar-let, and thy speech, thy spee-eech i-is come-ly," they squealed at the top of their village voices, strong in the possession of complete unmusicalness.

    The Green Carnation Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • But the unmusicalness of New England, less marked now than formerly, is only a symbol, perhaps, -- grievous that it should be so!

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

  • Music had been found to excite their mother to tears; Geraldine resembled Fulbert in unmusicalness, and Wilmet had depended on school, the brothers on their choir-practice, so that the sound was like a new thing in the house; nor was any one prepared either for the superiority of Clement's playing, or for the exceeding beauty and sweetness of Lance's singing.

    The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • a coming-to-be of unmusicalness and a passing-away of musicalness: but in fact ‘musicalness and unmusicalness’ are a property of the persistent identity, viz. man.

    On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

  • But the unmusicalness of New England, less marked now than formerly, is only a symbol, perhaps, ” grievous that it should be so! ” of the superior temperance of our race.

    A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

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