Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being unsafe.

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  • noun The state or condition of being unsafe.

Etymologies

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unsafe +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • No one was in this frat house now, it was beyond belief, a shack that you would think needed to be torn down immediately for unsafeness.

    It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ Paula Deen 2007

  • No one was in this frat house now, it was beyond belief, a shack that you would think needed to be torn down immediately for unsafeness.

    It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ Paula Deen 2007

  • Eight is a lot of unsafeness since my last test last July.

    miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2005

  • Not because the mere fact of a discussion seemed to throw over it an air of unsafeness or suspicion.

    Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

  • He often spoke to me about the unsafeness of my religion.

    Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830 1830

  • The fact that she defended herself (mentioning the darkness of the night, the dangerousness of the intersection, and the unsafeness of the other driver's car) clearly offended some readers.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • (for his family is one that stands in very good repute all over that country), entertained him here and there at their Christmas merrymakings, so that he was constantly riding to and fro, from one house to another, and sometimes, when the place of his destination was distant, or for other reason, as the unsafeness of the roads, he would be constrained to lie the night at an inn.

    Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories 1899

  • "Tight-lacing is ugly, because it distorts the natural lines of the figure, and gives an appearance of uncertainty and unsafeness ....

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • The function unsafeDetachRequestBody never worked and wasn't designed properly; it's been replaced with a much improved transformRequestBody function which a) actually works, and b) doesn't have issues re: unsafeness.

    Planet Haskell greg@gregorycollins.net 2010

  • "I'm really attracted to unsafeness, areas of discomfort, awkwardness, repulsion and attraction -- those are the interesting dynamics to me in art.

    Tucson Weekly 2008

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