unprovocativeness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

unprovocative +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

unprovocativeness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being unprovocative.
    • 1981, Lynne Reid Banks, Defy the wilderness‎[1]:
      She then hurried to her own room, and from her small supply of clothes selected an Indian cotton dress with a high neck and long, billowing sleeves, for its unprovocativeness.
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