unaestheticness

English

Etymology

From unaesthetic +‎ -ness.

Noun

unaestheticness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being unaesthetic.

   Antonyms: aestheticality, aestheticalness, aestheticity, aestheticness

   • 1990, Chris Anderson, “Introduction: John P. Sisk As Critic and Essayist”, in The Tyrannies of Virtue: The Cultural Criticism of John P. Sisk, Norman, Okla.; London: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, pages xxv–xxvi:

     When information overload threatens the coherence of the structure of attention, the severe rationing of information in the interest of survival appears to be the only alternative to a demoralizing anomie,” and this leads, almost inevitably, to various kinds of fanaticism, since fanaticism radically clarifies experience. It leads to various “tyrannies of virtue.” The alternative is to be less virtuous in the sense of being more charitable and realistic about the messiness, the unaestheticness, of daily existence.

   • 1997, Nancy K. Anderson, “False and True Beauty”, in The Perverted Ideal in Dostoevsky’s The Devils (Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature; 8), New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 125–126:

     Yet even before Raskolnikov repents, he himself recognizes that the murder he has performed is not a deed of horrible splendor, but a base and repulsive crime—as he scornfully notes, “unaesthetic.” And this “unaestheticness” finds its incarnation in Raskolnikov’s double Svidrigailov, who possesses the Napoleonic qualities of strength and ruthlessness to a greater degree than Raskolnikov, but who at the same time leads a far uglier existence, with his vison^[sic] of the afterlife as a “bathhouse with spiders” and his squalid suicide.

   • 1999 May 18, Devin T., quoting Selim Shithead, “About your damned ugly soccer thing !!!”, in rec.sport.soccer‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-08-25:

     4 ) Also soccer is a dirty sport they play in mud . ( like pigs ) / 5 ) Even the stupidests^[sic] of you can understand the unaestheticness of soccer compared to basketball .

   • 1999 November 29, Jeffrey Moore, chapter 20, in Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, Saskatoon, Sask.: Thistledown Press, →ISBN, page 261:

     A row of monitors projected women modelling bathing suits—the high-cut versions which, I don’t know about you, but I find slightly repellent. Sabrine had one. It’s not so much the string through the gluteal folds, not so much the unaestheticness, the vulgarity of it all—it’s what must be worn underneath: a genital Mohican plume.

   • 2001 August 19, Chris Waters, “Bug#108416: Format of short description should be mandated”, in linux.debian.policy‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-08-25:

     Policy is not required to file bugs (minor for typos, wishlist for "unaestheticness") against package descriptions. All it does is allow severity escalation. Having some guidelines somewhere would be good, because it would allow us to move towards the goal of greater consistency. But I still say that policy is not the place for such guidelines.

   • 2005 June 7, SCARECROW, “What's so HOT and NASTY about Venus?”, in talk.philosophy.humanism‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-08-25:

     > No one cares since they know the only thing you can unleash is
     > your mouth.
     As opposed to you, who assault^[sic] others by the offensiveness of your posture and the unaestheticness of your knuckles dragging on the ground.

Translations

quality of being unaesthetic

• Polish: nieestetyczność (pl) f, aestetyczność f