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Unworthiness Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Unworthiness has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the quality or state of lacking merit or value

2

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"

3

The characteristic or condition of being unworthy.

Related Terms
Antonyms
worthiness appropriateness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
bad unsuitability
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
baseness shamefulness inaptness infelicity
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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