OBTRUSIVENESS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Obtrusiveness

... which was to the household like the silent chamber of death. There had been for the mourner a soothing power in Ponto's dumb sympathy, even when, with the caprice of suffering, she could not bear the obtrusiveness of human pity. ...

— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various

... and lively manner spoke wonderfully for the effects of native air. Mr. Prendergast had become more absent and awkward than ever, but his extra shyness passed unremarked, and Lucilla's tact and grace supplied all deficiencies without obtrusiveness. Always at home in the vicarage, she made none of her former bantering display of familiarity, but only employed it quietly to secure the guests having what they wanted, and to awaken the host to his duties, when he forgot that any ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge