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This need to let the uncomfortableness fester and relish the minutia has long been part of Safdie’s career ethos.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Breaching the perceived safe space between oneself and one's interlocutor is intended to induce uncomfortableness and even distress, thus blocking fluid interaction.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023

“How that uncomfortableness translates to business performance is something else.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

“Video conferencing is taking away the uncomfortableness that people might have if I were to take a meeting and roll into the conference room,” Yang said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2020

But we will not linger by this general consideration of the fluctuating character of ideas, which becomes a source of real uncomfortableness, when we reflect that it applies to almost every notion of life.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst