disaffectedness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

disaffected +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

disaffectedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being disaffected.
    • 2007 September 29, Claudia La Rocco, “When Ballet and Music Are Awkward Partners”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      The dancers Rebecca Jefferson, Gino Grenek, Matthew Prescott and Ms. Miller pushed and pulled against one another and the music, with strangely postured disaffectedness, positioning Seth Tillett’s sculptured cardboard chairs like chess players jockeying for position.
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