unsightliness

adjective, un·sight·li·er, un·sight·li·est.

1. distasteful or unpleasant to look at: an unsightly wound; unsightly disorder.

adjective

1. unpleasant or unattractive to look at; ugly

adj.early 15c., “displeasing to the eye,” from un- (1) “not” + sight + -ly (1). Cf. Middle Dutch onsichtlijc “invisible; ugly,” Middle High German unsihtlih “invisible.” Related: Unsightliness. Middle English sightlie is attested from mid-15c. but only in the sense “visible;” sightly as “pleasing to the eye” is from 1560s.