Usually means: Evoking sympathy through sorrow, inadequacy.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word pitifulness:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pitifulness: Merriam-Webster
  2. pitifulness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pitifulness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pitifulness: Wordnik
  5. pitifulness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pitifulness: Wiktionary
  7. pitifulness: Dictionary.com
  8. pitifulness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. pitifulness: FreeDictionary.org
  10. pitifulness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitifulness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The state or quality of being pitiful.

Similar:
unpitifulness, pitiableness, patheticness, lamentableness, woefulness, pauperism, pituitousness, dismalness, poorness, lamentability, more...

Opposite:
dignity, pride, self-respect

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Similar:
unpitifulness, pitiableness, patheticness, lamentableness, woefulness, pauperism, pituitousness, dismalness, poorness, lamentability, more...

Opposite:
dignity, pride, self-respect



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