sordidity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sordid + -ity, perhaps after French sordidité.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sordidity (countable and uncountable, plural sordidities)
- (now rare) Sordidness.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: Review Books, published 2001, page 283:
- …are they not from this fountain of covetousness, that greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending?
- 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 14:
- 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.