UNWORTHINESS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unworthiness mean? 

• UNWORTHINESS (noun)
  The noun UNWORTHINESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality or state of lacking merit or value
2. the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting

  Familiarity information: UNWORTHINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNWORTHINESS (noun)

Meaning:

The quality or state of lacking merit or value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

bad; badness (that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unworthiness"):

baseness; contemptibility; despicability; despicableness; sordidness (unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values)

disgracefulness; ignominiousness; shamefulness (unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor)

Antonym:

worthiness (the quality or state of having merit or value)

Meaning:

The quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inappropriateness; unworthiness

Context examples:

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

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

ineptness; unsuitability; unsuitableness (the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unworthiness"):

inappositeness; inaptness (inappropriateness)

infelicity (inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression))