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SORDIDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sordidness mean?
• SORDIDNESS (noun)
The noun SORDIDNESS has 2 senses:
2. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
Familiarity information: SORDIDNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sordid dirtiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
sordidness; squalidness; squalor
Hypernyms ("sordidness" is a kind of...):
dirtiness; uncleanness (the state of being unsanitary)
Derivation:
sordid (foul and run-down and repulsive)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
baseness; contemptibility; despicability; despicableness; sordidness
Hypernyms ("sordidness" is a kind of...):
unworthiness (the quality or state of lacking merit or value)
Derivation:
sordid (meanly avaricious and mercenary)
sordid (unethical or dishonest)
sordid (morally degraded)
Context examples
He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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