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sordidity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /sɔːˈdɪdɪti/ (UK)

Etymology

From sordid + -ity, perhaps after French sordidité.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) 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:

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