INHOSPITABLENESS Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

inhospitableness

noun

as in friction

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Noun

This modern methodology, also frequently employed by ascendent jazz jammers SML, adds artful friction to the Prairiewolf terroir.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 17 July 2026
Opportunities Using Business Frameworks AI opportunities shouldn't arise from a haphazard list of use cases but should start with a methodical examination of where value is created and where friction exists.

— Michael Chavira, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of friction

Noun

Wall Street looked past geopolitical tensions with benchmark indexes rising on Big Tech strength and signs of easing inflation, even as Middle East hostilities escalated.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 July 2026
But Wednesday’s amendment vote is a preview of Democratic tensions to come after nearly half of the caucus voted to support it, including leaders like Whip Katherine Clark and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 July 2026

Definition of tension

Noun

In spite of their original values of humanitarianism and neutrality, these organizations have been morally debased from within, using the language of human rights and international justice yet deploying it on behalf of autocracies and against the liberal democracies that created them.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
The ball got away from Witt at short in spite of his best efforts to keep it on the infield.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2026

Definition of spite

Noun

Add the pathetic reality that Illinois is the very definition of unfriendliness for business development and job creation, and the only thing Pritzker and his accomplices can campaign on is the vilification of Trump, facts be damned.

— Paul Miller, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.

— Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024

Definition of unfriendliness

Noun

His removal sparked public protests and discord within the Ukrainian military, with Fedorov making an outspoken attack on the chief of the armed forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, on Thursday.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
The Administration has already undermined the agreement in many ways, experts tell TIME, citing the discord in February, when the bloc had to freeze the implementation of the agreement after Trump made additional tariff threats.

— Tiago Ventura, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of discord

Noun

And a rigorous screening protocol for LFS patients developed by David Malkin, a protege of Fraumeni and Li, helps detect early-stage malignancies, improving the odds of treating them and prolonging lives.

— Lawrence Ingrassia, STAT, 26 June 2026
But the tests didn’t reveal any malignancies.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026

Definition of malignancy

Noun

In this attitude was a strange commingling of repugnance and desire, alienation and belonging, intimacy and coldness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
Yet the men are wrenched apart, and the culprit seems to be nothing less than a hostile world, one marked by material scarcity and insurmountable alienation.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Definition of alienation

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