unsatisfactoriness and unsatisfaction
In a note on my little posting on the zero-nouning of the adjective unsatisfactory, in which I mentioned the (somewhat awkward) default –ness nominalization unsatisfactoriness, commenter TC floats, somewhat hesitantly, the possibility of a –tion nominalization unsatisfaction. Here a few quick remarks on the two items in dictionaries and on the Web. Both are in OED2 … Continue reading unsatisfactoriness and unsatisfaction
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