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DISAGREEABLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ill-tempered and offensive disposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("disagreeableness" is a kind of...):
disposition; temperament (your usual mood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disagreeableness"):
acerbity; acrimony; bitterness; jaundice; tartness; thorniness (a rough and bitter manner)
aggressiveness; belligerence; pugnacity (a natural disposition to be hostile)
contentiousness; quarrelsomeness (an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious)
Antonym:
agreeableness (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("disagreeableness" is a kind of...):
unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disagreeableness"):
abrasiveness (the quality of being sharply disagreeable)
acridity; acridness (the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone)
unpalatability; unpalatableness (the property of being unacceptable to the mind)
Antonym:
agreeableness (pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions)
Derivation:
disagreeable (not to your liking)
disagreeable (not agreeing with your tastes or expectations)
