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Worthliness vs Worthiness - What's the difference?

worthliness | worthiness |

As nouns the difference between worthliness and worthiness

is that worthliness is the state or condition of being worthly; valuableness; importance; stateliness; dignity; worthiness; excellence while worthiness is (uncountable) the state or quality of having value or merit.

worthliness

English

Noun

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  • The state or condition of being worthly; valuableness; importance; stateliness; dignity; worthiness; excellence.
  • *1862 , Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon, The British quarterly review :
    • We confess it appears to us that knowledge of character, quick perception into the worth or worthliness of those about us, in no degree depends on, or can be governed by, any system or theory whatever.
  • *1909 , The Medical standard:
    • Some undergraduates will advance while some graduates will retreat, so that in the end their worthliness may be cancelled in parallel lines.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    worthiness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of having value or merit.
  • (countable) The result or product of having value or merit.
  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being qualified or eligible.
  • (countable) The result or product of being qualified or eligible.