unworthiness

Other forms of unworthiness

plural

unworthinesses·

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 unworthiness

What does unworthiness mean?

unworthiness means "the quality or state of lacking merit or value". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unworthiness?

unworthiness has 4 syllables: un-wor-thi-ness. The stress falls on "wor".

What is another word for unworthiness?

Close synonyms include inappropriateness. 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.

What is the opposite of unworthiness?

The recorded antonyms are worthiness.

Is unworthiness a common word?

unworthiness 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.