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The quality of being offensive
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offensiveness
Word definitions for offensiveness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offensive \Of*fen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. offensif. See Offend .] Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being offensive
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being offensive [syn: odiousness , distastefulness ]
Usage examples of offensiveness.
Everywhere the city was growing out over the country, in blocks and detached edifices of limestone, sandstone, red and yellow brick, larger or smaller, of no more uniformity than our suburban dwellings, but never of their ugliness or lawless offensiveness.
The offensiveness of Inspector Mordan, Reggie has complained, lies in his capacity for being partly right.
The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness.