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UNCEREMONIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unceremoniousness mean?
• UNCEREMONIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun UNCEREMONIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNCEREMONIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unceremonial manner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unceremoniousness" is a kind of...):
informality (a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously)
Antonym:
ceremoniousness (a ceremonial manner)
Derivation:
unceremonious (without ceremony or formality)
Context examples
It did assist; for though he began with grave looks and short questions, he was soon led on to talk of them all in the usual way, and to take the child out of her arms with all the unceremoniousness of perfect amity.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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