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Inopportuneness

noun
1.
The quality of occurring at an inconvenient time.  Synonym: untimeliness.






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"Inopportuneness" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleasant. The Japanese smile at first charms. It is only at a later day, when one has observed the same smile under extraordinary circumstances—in moments of pain, shame, disappointment—that one becomes suspicious of it. Its apparent inopportuneness may even, on certain occasions, cause violent anger. Indeed, many of the difficulties between foreign residents and their native servants have been due to the smile. Any man who believes in the British tradition ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn



Words linked to "Inopportuneness" :   inopportune, untimeliness, opportuneness, inconvenience



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