unfulfilment
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + fulfilment.
Noun
[edit]unfulfilment (plural unfulfilments)
- Alternative form of unfulfillment
- 1902, Thomas Hardy, “The Lacking Sense”, in Poems of the Past and the Present, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 84:
- […] Brings those fearful unfulfilments, that red ravage through her zones / Whereat all creation groans.
- 2015 June 30, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Clueless? As if! This is the best fashion film ever made”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Strong eyeliner game, but as a romanticisation of eternal unfulfilment and dysfunctional relationships, not a great blueprint for life.