injucundity

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English

Etymology

From Latin injucunditas. See in- +‎ +‎ not, and jocund.

Noun

injucundity (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.
    • 1792, Emanuel Swedenborg, An Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries:
      disharmony begets injucundity, injucundity begets sadness, and these injure and extinguish the animal spirit and mind.
    • a. 1896, Coventry Patmore, Psyche's Discontent:
      To bear, apart from thy delight and thee,
      The fardel coarse of customary life’s
      Exceeding injucundity.

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