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unsatisfyingness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being unsatisfying or not gratifying to the full.

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  • noun The state or condition of being unsatisfying.

Etymologies

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unsatisfying +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • In its presence he either feels the spontaneous delight which comes of a general satisfyingness, or he feels the annoyance of a general unsatisfyingness, or he feels neither one nor the other.

    Platform Monologues 1902

  • Its vagueness to the mere intellect, its refusal to be packed into portable phrases, its satisfying unsatisfyingness, its vast atmosphere, its finding of us, its mystical hold of us, these are the tokens of its infinity.

    Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

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