sordidity

English

Etymology

From sordid +‎ -ity, perhaps after French sordidité.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /sɔːˈdɪdɪti/

Noun

sordidity (countable and uncountable, plural sordidities)

  1. (now rare) Sordidness.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books, 2001, p.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 2011, p. 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.
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