Unkindness

Definition: Unkindness

Unkindness

Noun

1. Lack of sympathy.

Date "unkindness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Antonym: kindness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Malevolence	Phrase: cruel as death; " hard unkindness' alter'd eye "; homo homini lupus; mala mens, malus animus.; "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind"; "sharp-tooth'd unkindness ".
	Noun: malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity; hate; malignity; malice, malice prepense; maliciousness; Adjective: spite, despite; resentment.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unkindness

English words defined with "unkindness": Diskindness ♦ To lift up the heel against ♦ Unkindliness, unkindly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unkindness": Ice Cream ♦ Peaches. (references)

Etymologies containing "unkindness": Diskindness. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	An Unkindness of Ravens (2000)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	An Unkindness of Ravens (reference) Unkindness of Ravens (reference) (more book examples)
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"Unkindness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unkindness" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

Expression using "unkindness": do smb. an unkindness. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unkindness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		tylyys (brusqueness, harshness), epäystävällisyys (unfriendliness). (various references)

German		Lieblosigkeit (lovelessness, uncharitableness). (various references)

Greek		έλλειψη καλωσύνησ, έλλειψη αβρότητοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		nyerseség (asperity, bluntness, coarseness, crudity, gruffness, rawness, surliness), kíméletlenség (harshness), barátságtalanság (asperity, bad grace, disobligingness, gauntness, incivility, sulkiness, surliness). (various references)

Italian		scortesia (discourtesy, impoliteness, incivility, rude act, rudeness), crudelt� (barbarity, cruelty, harshness, pitilessness), cattiveria (badness, malice, naughtiness, spite, wicked action, wickedness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不親切 (unfriendliness), 不人情 (heartlessness, inhumanity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふし�"せつ (unfriendliness), ふに�"じょう (heartlessness, inhumanity). (various references)

Pig Latin		indnessunkay

Russian		недоброта. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neobzirnost, neljubaznost (thoughtlessness, unfriendliness). (various references)

Swedish		elakhet (cruelty, devilry, deviltry, evilness, malevolence, malice, malignancy, meanness, naughtiness, spitefulness, venom, wickedness). (various references)

Vietnamese		lòng không tử tế tính t� n nhẫn. (various references)

Welsh		angharedigrwydd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unkindness": unkindnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-k-n-n-n-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: kindness, unkissed.
	-3 letters: dunness, niduses, nudniks, skinned, undines.
	-4 letters: disuse, ennuis, indues, issued, kissed, nudies, nudnik, sinned, skeins, sunken, sunned, undies, undine, unkend, unkind.
	-5 letters: desks, dikes, dines, dinks, disks, dukes, dunes, dunks, dusks, ennui, indue, inked, inned, issue, kinds, kines, neuks, nides, nidus, nines, nisus, nudes, nudie, nuked, nukes, sends, sides, sikes, sines.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-k-n-n-n-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: unkindliness, unkindnesses.
	+4 letters: unkindlinesses.
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