单词 | unlovableness |
释义 | unlovablenessn. The quality of being unlovable; inability to inspire love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > quality of being lovable > [noun] > quality of not being lovable unlovelinessa1586 unlovableness1829 unlovability1886 1829 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1 30 I hope I shall also be forgiven..to put the world in mind of the unlovableness of an amazon. 1860 Morning Chron. 27 Dec. 6/2 Mr H. Corri was in his best state of perverse unloveableness. 1896 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 9 78 It may be his own unlovableness which has caused the abandonment. 1912 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Republican 21 June 9/2 The dictatorial spirit of the man and the unlovableness of his character. 1960 N.Y. Times 23 July 17/3 The general aura of unlovableness to which the plot of the novel sentenced him. 2006 New Yorker 13 Mar. 73/1 [He] remains an obscurely sour figure. Some fundamental unlovableness adheres. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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