inhospitableness

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English

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Etymology

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From inhospitable +‎ -ness.

Noun

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inhospitableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being inhospitable.
    Synonym: inhospitability
    Antonym: hospitability
    • 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 9:
      Did you know that until very recently, more people had been to the moon than had dived beyond depths of six thousand metres? I think about this often – the inhospitableness of certain places.