Similar words: candidness, staidness, rigidness, rapidness, wordiness, sordid, blessedness, coldness. Meaning: ['sɔrdɪdnɪs /'sɔːd-] 
n. 1. sordid dirtiness 2. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values.
n. 1. sordid dirtiness 2. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values. 
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1 I have seen much inhumanity, cheating, corruption, sordidness and selfishness but I have not become cynical.
2 Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit...
3 Young men, while willing to concede the chaining sordidness of marriage, were hesitant about abandoning the organizations which they hoped would give them a career.
4 This soul-poverty and sordidness are the elements inherent in the marriage institution.
5 By withholding beauty, artists aimed to punish a culture of destruction for its own sordidness.
6 And without--the frontier warfare; the yearning of a boy, cast ashore upon a desert of newness and ugliness and sordidness, for all that is chastened and old, and noble with traditions.
7 His admiration goes out to the characters who defy the sordidness of life and, risking all the dangers of retribution, live beyond good and evil, in magnificence.
More similar words: candidness, staidness, rigidness, rapidness, wordiness, sordid, blessedness, coldness, boldness, redness, madness, sadness, fondness, loudness, goodness, mildness, hardness, gladness, blandness, kindness, grandness, blindness, tiredness, weirdness, forwardness, shrewdness, inwardness, doggedness, wickedness, unkindness.