unsuccess

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ success.

Noun

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unsuccess (countable and uncountable, plural unsuccesses)

  1. A lack of success.
    • 1939, W. H. Auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats, lines 58–61:
      With the farming of a verse
      Make a vineyard of the curse,
      Sing of human unsuccess
      In a rapture of distress