squalidnessn.
= squalidity n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and meanness
squalor1621
sorditude1623
sordidness1656
squalidity1668
squalidness1727
frowziness1729
sordor1823
seediness1832
fluffiness1860
grubbiness1866
crumbiness1949
raunch1952
scruffiness1974
grunginess1978
scuzziness1980
grottiness1984
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Squalidness, Foulness, Nastiness, Slovenliness.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. x. 219 The cunning little Animal..made his Escape from this Scene of Misery, Squallidness, and Poetry.
1812 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley (1858) II. 101 A spectacle of squalidness and misery.
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude xii. 236 The poor should have some place free from..the squalidness of home.
1867 E. H. Plumptre tr. Sophocles Œdipus at Colonos in tr. Sophocles Trag. (ed. 2) 106 And this his garb, whose time-worn squalidness Matches the time-worn face.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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