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badness vs unworthiness

unworthiness vs badness

badness and unworthiness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
badness Yes No No No
unworthiness Yes No No No
As nouns, unworthiness is a hyponym of badness; that is, unworthiness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than badness:
  • badness: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
  • unworthiness: the quality or state of lacking merit or value
Other hyponyms of badness include evil, evilness, undesirability, worse, unsoundness, liability, inadvisability.
badness (noun) unworthiness (noun)
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency the quality or state of lacking merit or value
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting
an attribute of mischievous children
Difference between badness and unworthiness

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