SQUALIDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squalidness mean? 

• SQUALIDNESS (noun)
  The noun SQUALIDNESS has 1 sense:

1. sordid dirtiness

  Familiarity information: SQUALIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUALIDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sordid dirtiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

sordidness; squalidness; squalor

Hypernyms ("squalidness" is a kind of...):

dirtiness; uncleanness (the state of being unsanitary)

Derivation:

squalid (foul and run-down and repulsive)

squalid (morally degraded)

 Context examples 

He was oppressed by the utter squalidness of it all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was morning, I remember, when I thus awoke to understanding; I had forgotten the particulars of what had happened and only felt as if some great misfortune had suddenly overwhelmed me; but when I looked around and saw the barred windows and the squalidness of the room in which I was, all flashed across my memory and I groaned bitterly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)