sordidity

/sɔːˈdɪdɪti/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

"…are they not from this fountain of covetousness, that greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending?"
"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."

From sordid + -ity, perhaps after French sordidité.

sordidities (plural)

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How do you pronounce sordidity?

The recorded pronunciation is /sɔːˈdɪdɪti/.

What does sordidity mean?

Sordidness.

Where does sordidity come from?

From sordid + -ity, perhaps after French sordidité.

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