uncomfortableness

English

Etymology

uncomfortable +‎ -ness

Noun

uncomfortableness (uncountable)

Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.
- 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 19, in Huckleberry Finn:
  It took away all the uncomfortableness and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft.

References

uncomfortableness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
“uncomfortableness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

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