unsatisfactoriness
IPA: ʌnsˈætɪsfˈæktrinʌs
noun
- The state or condition of being unsatisfactory.
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Examples of "unsatisfactoriness" in Sentences
- It means the deep, subtle sense of unsatisfactoriness which is a part of every mental treadmill.
- The second important opportunity is the possibility of experiencing pleasure without the after-taste of unsatisfactoriness.
- I have always like comparing this to the Buddhist concept of "dukkha" or unsatisfactoriness, disquieted, uneasy .... the inherent wrongness of conscious life.
- The odd unsatisfactoriness of Paradise Regain'd in the eyes of many readers is as much as anything to do with this climax, poetically surprising and morally challenging.
- The artist, even if the greatest artistic attainments are granted him, has all the greater a sense of unsatisfactoriness or frustration as a creative personality to endure.
- The fleeting nature of beauty described by mono no aware derives from the three states of existence in Buddhist philosophy: unsatisfactoriness, impersonality, and most importantly in this context, impermanence.
- But, the worthy Mr Boffin jogged away with a comfortless impression he could have dispensed with, that there was a deal of unsatisfactoriness in the world, besides what he had recalled as appertaining to the Harmon property.
- If selfishness is considered a value, altruistic actions will be undervalued and altruistic people coerced to do less than they would like to make (and could make), causing remorse (now a real reason for that) and unsatisfactoriness with relation to their own actions.
- This unsatisfactoriness and inconsistency mainly result from Herder's oversight of a single fact: that it is perfectly possible to reconcile narrow expressivism with the attribution of thoughts to non-linguistic art, namely by insisting that the thoughts expressed by non-linguistic art must be derivative from and bounded by the artist's capacity for linguistic expression.
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