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sordidity

sordidity

English

Noun

sordidity ‎(plural sordidities)

(rare) Sordidness.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.283:
  are they not from this fountain of covetousness, that greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending?