unadventurousness
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unadventurous + -ness.
Noun
[edit]unadventurousness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being unadventurous.
- 1997, David Solway, “Never on Sontag”, in Random Walks: Essays in Elective Criticism, Montreal, Que., Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, part 1, page 6:
- [Susan] Sontag then pauses for the space of a paragraph to deliver a swift verbal kick at American fiction for its technical unadventurousness, its lack of an avant-garde, and its tendency to interpretive borborygm.