unshowiness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

unshowy +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

unshowiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unshowy.
    • 2009 June 1, Jon Caramanica, “Country’s King Rules With Restraint”, in New York Times[1]:
      [] they were needless bursts of imagination from a man who’d made such a show of unshowiness.