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CONTEMPTIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contemptibility mean? 

CONTEMPTIBILITY (noun)
  The noun CONTEMPTIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher valuesplay

  Familiarity information: CONTEMPTIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONTEMPTIBILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

baseness; contemptibility; despicability; despicableness; sordidness

Hypernyms ("contemptibility" is a kind of...):

unworthiness (the quality or state of lacking merit or value)

Derivation:

contemptible (deserving of contempt or scorn)


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