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sordidity

UK/sɔːˈdɪdɪti/

sordidity noun: sordidness.

Noun

sordidity (countable and uncountable, plural sordidities)

  1. (archaic) Sordidness.
    • …are they not from this fountain of covetousness, that greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending?1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: Review Books, published 2001, page 283
    • She was not simply beautiful, but beautiful in a way that was so vastly improbable […] that to Richard, silly fool, she redeemed him, her, all of the sordidity and sopor, the tragic bathos that he felt sloshing about the Sealink.1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 14

Forms of sordidity

pluralsordidities

Origin of sordidity

From sordid + -ity, perhaps after French sordidité.

Questions about sordidity

What does sordidity mean?
Sordidity means sordidness.
What part of speech is sordidity?
Sordidity is a noun.
How do you pronounce sordidity?
Sordidity is pronounced /sɔːˈdɪdɪti/ (UK).
What is the plural of sordidity?
The plural of sordidity is sordidities.

Words near sordidity in the dictionary

  1. sordes
  2. sordid
  3. sordider
  4. sordidest
  5. sordidities
  6. sordidity
  7. sordidly
  8. sordidness
  9. sordidnesses
  10. sordine
  11. sordines

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