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Polish
Etymology
From odmowny + -ość. First attested in 1854.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
odmowność f
- (rare) quality of being declinatory, negativity; negativeness
2005, Ryszard Kapuściński, Cesarz, Czytelnik:Owszem, czuło się jakąś mglistość, smętne jakieś odmętne niewydarzenie, jakąś nawet odmowność, a i w powietrzu coś tak to ciężko, to nerwowo, to napięcie, to zwiotczenie, raz zwidnienie, raz ściemnienie, ale żeby z tego, tak nagle, prosto w przepaść?- Yes, you could feel some kind of haziness, some sad, muddled event, some even declinatoriness, and in the air something heavy, now nervous, this tension, this flaccidity, sometimes faded, sometimes dimmed, but so suddenly, straight into the abyss?
Declension
References
- ^ Czas (in Polish), volume 7, number 205, 1854 September 8, page 2
Further reading
- “odmowność”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022