Unmusicalness

Now, if ‘musicalness and unmusicalness’ had not been a property essentially inhering in man, these changes would have been ❋ Aristotle (2002)

"Thy lips are like a thread, like a thre-eda o-of scar-let, and thy speech, thy spee-eech i-is come-ly," they squealed at the top of their village voices, strong in the possession of complete unmusicalness. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

But the unmusicalness of New England, less marked now than formerly, is only a symbol, perhaps, -- grievous that it should be so! ❋ George Parsons Lathrop (1874)

Music had been found to excite their mother to tears; Geraldine resembled Fulbert in unmusicalness, and Wilmet had depended on school, the brothers on their choir-practice, so that the sound was like a new thing in the house; nor was any one prepared either for the superiority of Clement's playing, or for the exceeding beauty and sweetness of Lance's singing. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

a coming-to-be of unmusicalness and a passing-away of musicalness: but in fact ‘musicalness and unmusicalness’ are a property of the persistent identity, viz. man. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

But the unmusicalness of New England, less marked now than formerly, is only a symbol, perhaps, ” grievous that it should be so! ” of the superior temperance of our race. ❋ Lathrop, George P (1876)