upsettingnessn.
The quality of being upsetting or disturbing.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [noun] > action or quality of upsetting
sturbing?c1225
sturblingc1330
troublingc1340
perturbationa1382
oversettinga1398
stroublinga1400
perturbancec1425
unresting?c1450
inquieting1527
disquieting1535
disquietment1606
discomfita1616
rufflement1806
discomfiture1885
upsettingness1922
1922 Glasgow Herald 23 Feb. 6/8 I have heard an old man speak with asperity of the ‘upsettingness’ of one who had adopted ‘Mac’, which his father had not used.
1949 G. Ryle Concept of Mind iv. 93 The degrees of upsettingness..are ordinarily characterised as degrees of violence.
1977 ‘M. Innes’ Honeybath's Haven xviii. 167 He had taken the reason to have been simply the general upsettingness of Melissa's turning up on them in that restaurant in Rome.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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