messed-upness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

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noun

Informal; Uncountable

"Nor does such messed-upness in life outside of novels invariably remain unchanged."
"Some of the messed-upness is caused by our pursuing values other than those God wants for us. In short, some of our problems are caused by our ... Some of our messed-upness is caused by the choices of others or by just plain bad luck."
"Kids were everywhere, in various stages of messed-upness."

From messed-up + -ness.

messed-up

messed-up

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