deservingness

1. 1.

   the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)

   “there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded”

   Synonymsmeritmeritoriousness

   Broaderworthiness

   Narrowerdesert

Other forms of deservingness

plural

deservingnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deservingness

What does deservingness mean?

deservingness means "the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)".

How many syllables are in deservingness?

deservingness has 4 syllables: de-ser-ving-ness. The stress falls on "ser".

What is another word for deservingness?

Close synonyms include merit, meritoriousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deservingness a common word?

deservingness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.