inhospitality
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7.7
- noun
- /ˌɪnhɒsˈpɪtəlɪti/
:
inhospitalidad
- They complained about the inhospitality they experienced during their stay at the resort.
Examples
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The analysis seeks to clarify intersecting levels of inhospitality and injustice.
Academic text (2010) -
His retention of the individual's role in sustaining sinful structures is significant and valuable for a consideration of subjective inhospitality to immigrants, yet the primacy
Academic text (2010) -
Throughout, the inhospitality of insistent individualism can be seen as protection against the vulnerability and anxiety of being an educator.
Academic text (2000) -
As the organism develops a brain, it is able to circumvent the adversities of condition; and by overcoming the more pronounced inhospitality of the environment, it is able not only to survive but to spread.
Academic text (1996) -
The surface of the continent here, in its inhospitality, stored none of the sun's heat of day to warm the nights; when the burning red disk sank behind the unbroken line of the horizon, night descended, hard and bone-chilling.
Fiction book (1996) -
Like Paul, these "talking points" diagnose the ills of the present age: prideful conflict and fear of "the other," cutthroat competition which excludes the powerless, treating persons as objects, and inhospitality.
Blog text (25) -
The guest felt the inhospitality when no one greeted him at the door.
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Her inhospitality made it clear that she did not want visitors.
Synonyms
A lack of welcome or friendliness to guests
Antonyms
How Unwelcoming
Surface Forms
Morphology
inhospitality = hospitality (transparent) = in + hospitality
The meaning is a straightforward negation of 'hospitality', so learners who know the base word can readily infer it.
Etymology
Inhospitality starts with in- meaning 'not' and the rest is hospitality, which comes from a word for 'guest' and appears in familiar words like hospital and hostel. So, inhospitality is the 'not welcoming' or unfriendly treatment of guests and strangers.