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DESPICABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does despicability mean?
• DESPICABILITY (noun)
The noun DESPICABILITY has 1 sense:
1. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
Familiarity information: DESPICABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
baseness; contemptibility; despicability; despicableness; sordidness
Hypernyms ("despicability" is a kind of...):
unworthiness (the quality or state of lacking merit or value)
Derivation:
despicable (morally reprehensible)
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