dishevelledness

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From dishevelled +‎ -ness.

Noun

dishevelledness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being dishevelled.
    Synonym: dishevelment
    • 2010 November 29, Lauren Collins, “Are You the Messiah?”, in The New Yorker‎[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 November 2014:
      Patel has a ready wit, the sort of um-er cleverness that purports to be mental dishevelledness but actually implies a suave urbanity.
    • 2017 August 10, David Pollock, “Edinburgh Festival, Rhinoceros, Royal Lyceum Theatre, review: 'Far smarter than a one-note topical satire'”, in The Independent‎[2], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 July 2022:
      One by one, the people in this small French town are mutating into rhinoceroses and congregating in herds in the street, smashing and destroying everything they find. Only Berenger, hapless lover of a drink who wanders town in a state of morning-after dishevelledness, appears immune to the disease overtaking everyone around him.
    • 2018 February 5, Isabelle Fraser, “Great Estates: inside the 'un-stately home' packed with taxidermy and kept in a permanent state of crumbling decline”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph‎[3], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 September 2025:
      He [Stewart Alcock]’s ­responsible for maintaining the ­“un-stately home”, complete with cobwebs and crumbling architraves. “We chose to adopt a conservation approach; our mantra is repair not restore. We try not to be tempted to turn back the clock,” he says. “We want to try to ensure when visitors arrive it has a sense of struggling and falling apart and dishevelledness.”
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