When something is different from your expectations and you cannot clearly explain “your expectations” or “the difference from your expectations,” you describe it as “uncomfortable.


What is uncomfortable?

  • I found this in an English-Japanese dictionary

    • a sense of discomfort
    • uncomfortable feeling
    • unpleasant sensation
  • I feel uncomfortable with this expression.

  • Collect other examples

  • A word meaning “not fitting in” or “not feeling at home”.

    • A word that means you are not comfortable with things or uncomfortable.
    • Neither is COMFORTABLE!
  • https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/é•ć’Œæ„Ÿ

    • Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Dictionary
      • a feeling of wrongness
      • a feeling that something is wrong
        • out of joint
      • a feeling that one does not belong
        • in a place
    • Do you not feel that something is out of place?
    • I felt uneasy with those words.
    • I notice that something is off about that.
    • Somehow, I feel something is off.
    • That had a different method than usual, so it felt strange.
  • https://studyhacker.net/columns/iwakan-daiji

    • “I don’t know the cause or reason, but something is different.

      • I do not know the cause and reason well, but something is different
      • good
      • What makes “something different” different from what?
        • The difference between my prediction of “this would be” and the reality of “this was”.
    • “The potential information that is coming in as information but for some reason is not being used,” a sense of “it’s somehow different.

      • A situation where information is coming in but not being used.
      • This is a relevant situation
  • https://kotobank.jp/word/é•ć’Œæ„Ÿ-436878

    • Digital Daizensen Commentary
      • A feeling of not feeling right. Also, it seems out of place.
      • What is the state of “fit”?
      • State of being fit
      • Then its synonym is MISFIT?
      • Chigu is INCONSISTENT
    • Commentary on Daijirin, 3rd ed.
      • The relationship with the things around it is not right and does not feel right.
    • Commentary on the Selection Edition of the Dictionary of the Japanese Language and Linguistics
      • Feeling out of harmony. A feeling of not fitting in. A feeling of not fitting in.
  • Dissonant images that disrupt the harmony

  • What is the “harmony” of discomfort?

    • It is different from “Wa,” or “harmony” in the sense that it is different.
    • differs from sum
    • I can’t clearly explain what that “harmony” is, but the feeling of knowing that it is different from that, that is discomfort
  • https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/é•ć’Œæ„Ÿ

    • disharmony

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