unkindness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The collective noun for ravens

   All Olwynne could remember, though, was her father falling away from her into some deep pit, his black wings bent over his face, and then hundreds of ravens, an unkindness of ravens, plummeting from the sky to peck out her eyes.

2. 2
   noun

   lack of sympathy

3. 3
   noun

   The state or quality of being unkind.

4. 4
   noun

   An unkind act.

From Middle English unkyndenesse; equivalent to unkind + -ness.

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