Definition for Offensiveness:

• The quality or condition of being offensive; unpleasantness; to act on the offensive, to be the attacking party.

Synonyms for Offensiveness:

• n.

  •coarseness (noun)
  • harshness,
  • unevenness,
  • roughness,
  • smuttiness,
  • bawdiness,
  • ribaldry.
  •distastefulness (noun)
  • distastefulness.
  •evil (noun)
  • damnation,
  • bane,
  • disgrace,
  • repulsiveness,
  • reprehensibleness,
  • badness,
  • heinousness,
  • mischief,
  • abomination,
  • atrocity,
  • terribleness,
  • detriment,
  • hideousness,
  • monstrosity,
  • wickedness,
  • calamitousness,
  • foulness,
  • Repellency,
  • evil,
  • sinisterness,
  • sinfulness,
  • nefariousness.
  •illegality (noun)
  • criminality,
  • lawlessness,
  • punishability,
  • wrongfulness,
  • illegality,
  • unlawfulness,
  • unconstitutionality,
  • injustice,
  • unjustness,
  • illicitness,
  • actionability,
  • feloniousness.
  •painfulness (noun)
  • arduousness,
  • distressfulness,
  • cruelty,
  • aggravation,
  • severity,
  • hurtfulness,
  • anguish,
  • torture,
  • woefulness,
  • uncomfortableness,
  • odiousness,
  • bitterness,
  • misery,
  • ache,
  • acuteness,
  • torment,
  • annoyingness,
  • unpleasantness,
  • agony,
  • irritation,
  • painfulness,
  • oppressiveness,
  • irksomeness,
  • grievousness,
  • soreness.
  •ugliness (noun)
  • homeliness,
  • Monstrousness,
  • unseemliness,
  • unsightliness,
  • disfigurement,
  • plainness.
  •unsightliness (noun)
  • un-sightlinesses,
  • un-sightliness,
  • un sightliness,
  • un sightlinesses.
  •vulgarity (noun)
  • colloquialism,
  • depravity,
  • animality,
  • inelegance,
  • garishness,
  • ignominy,
  • brutishness,
  • sleaze,
  • outlandishness,
  • clumsiness,
  • brazenness,
  • lowness,
  • crudeness,
  • vulgarity,
  • rudeness,
  • saltiness,
  • rankness,
  • broadness,
  • commonness,
  • gracelessness,
  • tactlessness,
  • shamelessness,
  • grossness,
  • tawdriness,
  • baseness,
  • barbarism,
  • vernacular,
  • gaudiness,
  • profanity,
  • tastelessness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • boorishness,
  • callousness,
  • coarseness,
  • crassness,
  • crudity,
  • indelicacy,
  • insolence,
  • offensiveness,
  • smut,
  • ugliness,
  • uncouthness,
  • Earthiness,
  • Rawness,
  • Crudities,
  • poor taste,
  • uncouthnesses,
  • unrefinement.
  •Other relevant words:
  • blue.

Antonyms for Offensiveness:

• n.

  • coarseness
    manners, delicacy, politeness, sophistication, refinement.
  • insolence
    modesty, respect, humility.
  • ugliness
    attractiveness, attraction, beauty, handsomeness, fairness.

Offensiveness Sentence Examples:

• My hatred did not reach to the age of the man who played the boy - lover, but to the offensiveness with which he thrust his individuality upon me, longing to realise the poet's divine imagination: and the woman, too, I wished with my whole soul away, subtle and strange though she was, and I yearned for her part to be played by a youth as in old time: a youth cunningly disguised, would be a symbol; and my mind would be free to imagine the divine Juliet of the poet, whereas I could but dream of the bright eyes and delicate mien and motion of the woman who had thrust herself between me and it.

• Fired by jealousy and Flip's indifference, he " deemed it his duty" - using that facile form of cowardly offensiveness - to betray Flip.