unworthiness meaning

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unworthiness (noun): the quality or state of lacking merit or value.

unworthiness has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

unworthiness as a noun

  1. the quality or state of lacking merit or value

    Opposite: worthiness

    Type of: bad

    Kinds: baseness, shamefulness

    Related forms: unworthy

  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

    Synonyms: inappropriateness

    Type of: unsuitability

    Kinds: inaptness, infelicity

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