unobtrusiveness

Examples

• All

• The Court also considered the relative unobtrusiveness of the drug-testing policy.

  Academic text (2000)

• Whereas magazines favored overt stylization, cinematographers consistently mentioned unobtrusiveness as a guiding ideal.

  Academic text (2017)

• For all their rhetoric of unobtrusiveness, cinematographers often lit their close-ups with the eye-catching splendor of the best celebrity portraits.

  Academic text (2017)

• The unobtrusiveness of the discourse forms a counterpart to the centrality of the story world and is related to the nature of illusionist immersion, which is to predominate over aesthetic distance.

  Academic text (2004)

• Her unobtrusiveness in social gatherings allows others to shine without feeling overshadowed.

• He appreciated the unobtrusiveness of the new furniture, which blended seamlessly into the room.

• The unobtrusiveness of the monitoring system ensured that the employees felt comfortable and not watched.

Synonyms

S

self-effacement

vsunobtrusiveness

1 8.3

Behaving quietly and not trying to get attention

is the general quality of not attracting notice rather than the deliberate act

E

effacement

vsunobtrusiveness

1 8.6

Making yourself less noticeable in a group or place

is the wider trait of not attracting notice rather than a single act

S

stealthiness

vsunobtrusiveness

1 7.3

Quiet and secret actions to avoid being noticed

means simply not attracting attention without secretive or stealthy intent

I

inconspicuousness

vsunobtrusiveness

7.9

Being hard to notice in a place or crowd

stresses avoiding attention seen as unwelcome or inappropriate

U

unnoticeableness

vsunobtrusiveness

8.4

A state of not being seen or heard by other people

emphasizes avoiding unwanted social attention rather than mere visibility

M

mousiness

vsunobtrusiveness

7.2

A quality of being very shy and quiet so you do not attract attention

is a neutral lack of notice not tied to personal timidity

U

unassumingness

vsunobtrusiveness

7.9

Being modest and not showing off

focuses on lack of notice or intrusiveness rather than modesty itself

Antonyms

O

obtrusiveness

1 7.8

Being too noticeable in a way that makes people uncomfortable

C

conspicuousness

1 6.8

How easy something is to see or notice

How Noticeable

obtrusiveness

1 7.8

noticeability

4.9

unobtrusiveness

6.8

inconspicuousness

7.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology