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Noun: unworthiness  ,ún'wur-dhee-nus
  1. The quality or state of lacking merit or value
     
  2. The quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting
    "his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness";
    - inappropriateness

Type of: bad, badness, ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness

Antonym: worthiness

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