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miserability

miserability noun: miserableness.

Noun

miserability (uncountable)

  1. miserableness
    • I durst declare the myserabilitie / Of diners curtis,—war nocht my tyme bene schort,— / The dreidfull cheange, vaine glore, and vilitie, / The painfull plesour, as Poetis doith reporte, / Sum tyme in hope, sum tyme in disconforte; / And how sum men dois spend thair ȝouthed haill / In court, syne...1530, David Lyndsay, The Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo

Origin of miserability

From miserable + -ability.

Questions about miserability

What does miserability mean?
Miserability means miserableness.
What part of speech is miserability?
Miserability is a noun.

Words near miserability in the dictionary

  1. miser
  2. miserabilism
  3. miserabilist
  4. miserabilistic
  5. miserabilists
  6. miserability
  7. miserable
  8. miserable as a wet hen
  9. miserableness
  10. miserablenesses
  11. miserabler

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