sordidness noun2 •The quality or state of being sordid.A brooding Northerner, Verhaeren sees the sorrow, the travail, the sordidness, going on all about him, and loves the world just the same, […] — 1915 •The product or result of being sordid.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 formssordidnesses
