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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality or state of lacking merit or value;

2. the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting;
- Example: "he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person"
- Example: "his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness"
[syn: inappropriateness, unworthiness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unworthy \Un*wor"thy\, a. Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of. -- Un*wor"thi*ly, adv. -- Un*wor"thi*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unworthiness n 1: the quality or state of lacking merit or value [ant: worthiness] 2: the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting; "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" [syn: inappropriateness, unworthiness] [ant: appropriateness]