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UNBECOMINGNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unbecomingness mean?
• UNBECOMINGNESS (noun)
The noun UNBECOMINGNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being unbecoming
Familiarity information: UNBECOMINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unbecoming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unbecomingness" is a kind of...):
indecorousness; indecorum (a lack of decorum)
Antonym:
becomingness (the quality of being becoming)
Derivation:
unbecoming (not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society)
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