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countable and uncountable, plural dispreferences
(formal) The quality or state of preferring a thing less than an alternative. quotations examples
As Levinson (1983: 334) points out, signs of dispreference in turn taking include: (a) Delays: notably a pause, or a time gap, before the responder replies to the preceding turn […]
2014, Geoffrey N. Leech, The Pragmatics of Politeness, page 31