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SORDIDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sordidness mean? 

SORDIDNESS (noun)
  The noun SORDIDNESS has 2 senses:

1. sordid dirtinessplay

2. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher valuesplay

  Familiarity information: SORDIDNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SORDIDNESS (noun)


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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