upsettingness

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English

Etymology

From upsetting +‎ -ness.

Noun

upsettingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being upsetting.
    • 1911, D S Meldrum, “Shades of the Rapenburg”, in Home Life in Holland, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 303:
      And the Utrechters, after they were whisked round their beautiful Singel, and even through the noble bosky alley of the Maliebaan, were only restrained from an intolerable upsettingness by the gibes of the Hagenaars at the old horse-express, now departed, which survived for a time to ply a raucous and tortuous course around their Dom.