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Sordidness vs Squalor - What's the difference?

sordidness | squalor |

As nouns the difference between sordidness and squalor

is that sordidness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being sordid while squalor is squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.

sordidness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being sordid.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , passage=A brooding Northerner, Verhaeren sees the sorrow, the travail, the sordidness , going on all about him, and loves the world just the same, ... , page=38 , title=Six French Poets: Studies in Contemporary Literature (2nd edition) , author=Amy Lowell , publisher=The Macmillan Company , year=1915}}
  • (countable) The result or product of being sordid.
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , passage=His was a nature— weak I own — that felt a sordidness in narrow means and their attendants ; the ugliness of poverty pained his spirit. , title=The Rev. Mr. Allonby. , journal=Harper's New Monthly Magazine , year=1864 , author=Katherine F. Williams , volume=XXVIII}}

    squalor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
  • * The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor . -- Taylor
  • * To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. -- Dickens
  • ** Dickens also used the term to refer to those living in Squalor, such as those in the slums.

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