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Definition of Inhospitableness
1. Noun. The environmental condition in a region that lacks a favorable climate or terrain for life or growth.
2. Noun. Having an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition.
Definition of Inhospitableness
1. Noun. The quality of being inhospitable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhospitableness
Literary usage of Inhospitableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Whisky runners were inclined to resent intrusion of their privacy, with a touch
of that biting inhospitableness which a moonlighter of Kentucky uses toward ..."
2. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"The perpetually closed door and shut-up rooms of ceremony, the largest and most
conspicuous of all in the house, gave an air of inhospitableness which, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"INHOSPITABLY, (in-hos-pe-la-ble) ad. Unkindly to strangers. INHUMAN, (in-hu'-man) a.
Barbarous; savage ; cruel. inhospitableness. ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"... with the doleful reports of the inhospitableness of the climate circulated by
the emigrants to cover their cowardice checked for a season the ardour of ..."
5. Immigration, a World Movement and Its American Significance by Henry Pratt Fairchild (1913)
"Permanent natural inhospitableness of soil or climate or scarcity of natural
resources may make the struggle for existence a perpetually hard one. ..."
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