| 单词 |
upsettingness |
| 释义 |
upˈsettingness [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being upsetting or disturbing.
1922Glasgow Herald 23 Feb. 6/8, I have heard an old man speak with asperity of the ‘upsettingness’ of one who had adopted ‘Mac’, which his father had not used. 1949G. Ryle Concept of Mind iv. 93 The degrees of upsettingness..are ordinarily characterised as degrees of violence. 1977‘M. Innes’ Honeybath's Haven xviii. 167 He had taken the reason to have been simply the general upsettingness of Melissa's turning up on them in that restaurant in Rome. |

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