English noun: unpleasantness |
1. | unpleasantness (feeling) the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling |
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| Broader (hypernym) | pain, painfulness |
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| Antonyms | pleasantness |
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2. | unpleasantness (attribute) the quality of giving displeasure |
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| Samples | The recent unpleasantness of the weather.
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| Broader (hypernym) | quality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | awfulness, distastefulness, dreadfulness, harshness, horridness, nastiness, odiousness, offensiveness, roughness, terribleness |
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| Antonyms | pleasantness, sweetness |
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