uncomfortableness

English

Etymology

uncomfortable +‎ -ness

Noun

uncomfortableness (uncountable)

1. Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.
   • 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 19, in Huckleberry Finn:

     It took away all the uncomfortableness and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft.

References

• uncomfortableness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “uncomfortableness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.