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INOPPORTUNENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inopportuneness mean?
• INOPPORTUNENESS (noun)
The noun INOPPORTUNENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time
Familiarity information: INOPPORTUNENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of occurring at an inconvenient time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
inopportuneness; untimeliness
Hypernyms ("inopportuneness" is a kind of...):
inconvenience (the quality of not being useful or convenient)
Antonym:
opportuneness (timely convenience)
Derivation:
inopportune (not opportune)
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