OBTRUSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obtrusiveness mean? 

• OBTRUSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun OBTRUSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. an unwelcome conspicuousness

  Familiarity information: OBTRUSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBTRUSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unwelcome conspicuousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("obtrusiveness" is a kind of...):

conspicuousness (high visibility)

Antonym:

unobtrusiveness (the quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way)

Derivation:

obtrusive (undesirably noticeable)

obtrusive (sticking out; protruding)

 Context examples 

And then he would have changed the subject, and sipped his coffee in peace over domestic matters of a calmer hue; but Mr. Yates, without discernment to catch Sir Thomas's meaning, or diffidence, or delicacy, or discretion enough to allow him to lead the discourse while he mingled among the others with the least obtrusiveness himself, would keep him on the topic of the theatre, would torment him with questions and remarks relative to it, and finally would make him hear the whole history of his disappointment at Ecclesford.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He stood as opposed to Captain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil of his attentions last night, the irremediable mischief he might have done, was considered with sensations unqualified, unperplexed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)