UNOBTRUSIVENESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unobtrusiveness mean? 

• UNOBTRUSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun UNOBTRUSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way

  Familiarity information: UNOBTRUSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNOBTRUSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unobtrusiveness" is a kind of...):

inconspicuousness (the quality of being not easily seen)

Antonym:

obtrusiveness (an unwelcome conspicuousness)

Derivation:

unobtrusive (not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable)

 Context examples 

But here, Elinor could neither wonder nor blame; and when she saw, as she assisted Marianne from the carriage, that she had been crying, she saw only an emotion too natural in itself to raise any thing less tender than pity, and in its unobtrusiveness entitled to praise.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)