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What is the noun for unpleasantness?

What's the noun for unpleasantness? Here's the word you're looking for.

unpleasure
  1. (rare) Unpleasantness; displeasure.
  2. (psychology) A sense of internal discomfort opposed to pleasure, produced by impeded impulses from the ego.
unpleasantness
  1. (uncountable) The property of being unpleasant or disagreeable.
  2. (countable) An unpleasant behaviour, occurrence, etc.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He captured them seated practically back to back on spindly gilt chairs at a fashion show, in an invisible yet palpable fog of unpleasantness.”
      “This time there was no media coverage as there was no public hostility or unpleasantness.”
      “There had been during the period between the wars many clashes and much unpleasantness between the two nationalities, and the ill will thus generated promised disastrous consequences.”
unpleasantry
  1. That which is unpleasant.
  2. An unpleasant remark, behaviour, etc.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “After all that unpleasantry Saber had endured, how dare anyone presume to think they knew him backwards, frontwards, upside down and sideways?”
      “Despite the catharsis, however, one unpleasantry lingered, uncharted.”
      “They are easy to clean and, therefore, keep parents from having to deal with the unpleasantry of dirty diapers and washing clothes.”
unpleasingness
  1. Quality of being unpleasing.
unpleasantnesses
  1. plural of unpleasantness
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But if he had been inclined to show those unpleasantnesses he wouldn't have been asked to direct this musical in the first place.”
      “Ben Pollack, also of the Maharishi School, who wore a gold mezuzah around his neck and a beatific look on his face, likewise testified to meditation's ameliorative effects on the usual unpleasantnesses of teen-agerdom.”
      “He was a man to whom unpleasantnesses arrived as do dinners to ordinary people.”
unpleasantries
  1. plural of unpleasantry
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Anyway, I came home to loving arms who were so happy to see me that it took all the unpleasantries from the days' events.”
      “Anything that's going to mess with the infrastructure now that it's so delicate and fragile could cause some unpleasantries.”
      “I just want a fresh start and I want to rid myself of all the unpleasantries of my recent past.”
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