unworthiness

noun

1. the quality or state of lacking merit or value

• Ant: ↑worthiness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑unworthy

• Hypernyms: ↑bad, ↑badness

• Hyponyms:

↑baseness, ↑sordidness, ↑contemptibility, ↑despicableness, ↑despicability, ↑shamefulness, ↑disgracefulness, ↑ignominiousness

2. the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting

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he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person

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his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness

• Syn: ↑inappropriateness

• Ant: ↑appropriateness (for: ↑inappropriateness)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑inappropriate (for: ↑inappropriateness)

• Hypernyms: ↑unsuitability, ↑unsuitableness, ↑ineptness

• Hyponyms: ↑inaptness, ↑inappositeness, ↑infelicity