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unworthiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun unworthiness has 2 senses
- unworthiness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality or state of lacking merit or value; Array has particulars: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness, disgracefulness, ignominiousness, shamefulness
- unworthiness(n = noun.attribute) inappropriateness - the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting; "he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person"; "his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness" is a kind of ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness
is a kind of bad, badness
Derived forms adjective unworthy3, adjective unworthy1
Antonym: worthiness
has particulars: inappositeness, inaptness, infelicity
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