Definition of "sordidness"

sordidness

noun
countable and uncountable, plural sordidnesses
1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being sordid.
  Quotations
  Every possible care was taken of him, and in a day or two he was able to walk into the study again, where he sat gazing at the sordidness and unneatness of the apartment, the strange festoons and drapery of spiders' webs, […]
  1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret
  A brooding Northerner, Verhaeren sees the sorrow, the travail, the sordidness, going on all about him, and loves the world just the same, ...
  1915, Amy Lowell, Six French Poets: Studies in Contemporary Literature (2nd edition), The Macmillan Company, page 38
2. (countable) The result or product of being sordid.
  Quotations
  His was a nature — weak I own — that felt a sordidness in narrow means and their attendants ; the ugliness of poverty pained his spirit.
  1864, Katherine F. Williams, “The Rev. Mr. Allonby.”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XXVIII