sordidityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /sɔːˈdɪdɪti/

名詞

sordidity (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sordidities)

1. (now まれに) Sordidness.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books, 2001, p.283:

     …are they not from this fountain of covetousness, that greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending?

   • 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury 2011, p. 14:

     She was not simply beautiful, but beautiful in a way that was so vastly improbable […] that to Richard, silly fool, she redeemed him, her, all of the sordidity and sopor, the tragic bathos that he felt sloshing about the Sealink.