injucundity

English

Etymology

From Latin injucunditas. See in- +‎ [Term?] +‎ not, and jocund.

Noun

injucundity (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The quality of being unpleasant; disagreeableness.
   • 1792, Emanuel Swedenborg, An Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries:

     disharmony begets injucundity, injucundity begets sadness, and these injure and extinguish the animal spirit and mind.

   • a. 1896, Coventry Patmore, Psyche's Discontent:

     To bear, apart from thy delight and thee,
     The fardel coarse of customary life’s
     Exceeding injucundity.

References

• “injucundity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.