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How to pronounce unpleasantness in English?

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Type Words
Type of pain, painfulness
Derivation unpleasant
Type Words
Type of quality
Has types dreadfulness, harshness, horridness, nastiness, odiousness, offensiveness, roughness, terribleness, awfulness, unpleasingness, disagreeableness, distastefulness
Derivation unpleasant


the recent unpleasantness of the weather.

Examples of unpleasantness

unpleasantness
I suspect the flight attendants are worn out and trying to avoid unpleasantness.
From the economist.com
The other recessions between that and the current unpleasantness are irrelevant.
From the economist.com
This time, though, the unpleasantness is certainly not all of the locals'making.
From the time.com
So compare this current unpleasantness with Islamabad's sweet talking of China.
From the globalspin.blogs.time.com
It was that he let himself be recorded doing so, and we saw the unpleasantness.
From the newsobserver.com
They make eye contact for the first time since the unpleasantness in Cambridge.
From the post-gazette.com
Instead, by doing it this way, you batch the unpleasantness of preparing lunch.
From the sacbee.com
Refusing to shake his opponent's hand was just the start of his unpleasantness.
From the independent.co.uk
Scrumming around other peoples'luggage only leads to delays and unpleasantness.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • The feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
  • The quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather"
  • Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. Suffering may be qualified as physical or mental. It may come in all degrees of intensity, from mild to intolerable. ...