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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen

Meaning of "shabbiness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHABBINESS

shabbiness  [ˈʃæbɪnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHABBINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shabbiness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHABBINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of shabbiness in the English dictionary

The definition of shabbiness in the dictionary is the quality of looking old and in bad condition. Other definition of shabbiness is unfair or unacceptable behaviour.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHABBINESS


bulkiness
ˈbʌlkɪnɪs
comeliness
ˈkʌmlɪnɪs
dizziness
ˈdɪzɪnɪs
dryness
ˈdraɪnɪs
finis
ˈfɪnɪs
flabbiness
ˈflæbɪnɪs
friendliness
ˈfrɛndlɪnɪs
grubbiness
ˈɡrʌbɪnɪs
Guinness
ˈɡɪnɪs
happiness
ˈhæpɪnɪs
holiness
ˈhəʊlɪnɪs
readiness
ˈrɛdɪnɪs
scabbiness
ˈskæbɪnɪs
scrubbiness
ˈskrʌbɪnɪs
shrubbiness
ˈʃrʌbɪnɪs
slabbiness
ˈslæbɪnɪs
snubbiness
ˈsnʌbɪnɪs
stubbiness
ˈstʌbɪnɪs
timeliness
ˈtaɪmlɪnɪs
tubbiness
ˈtʌbɪnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHABBINESS

shabash
Shabbat
shabbatot
Shabbes
shabbier
shabbiest
shabbily
shabble
Shabbos
Shabbosim
Shabbosos
shabby
shabby chic
shabby-genteel
shabby-looking
shabrack
shabracque

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHABBINESS

agribusiness
big business
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
core business
craziness
do the business
drowsiness
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
geekiness
hairiness
laziness
loneliness
retail business
rough-and-readiness
show business
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of shabbiness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shabbiness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHABBINESS

Find out the translation of shabbiness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shabbiness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shabbiness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

破旧
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

shabbiness
570 millions of speakers

English

shabbiness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

запущенность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

shabbiness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

shabbiness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mesquinerie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesucian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schäbigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

みすぼらしさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

shabbiness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shabbiness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

shabbiness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

shabbiness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

थरकाप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eskilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

meschinità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

świństwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

занедбаність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

shabbiness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αθλιότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

shabbiness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

shabbiness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shabbiness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shabbiness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHABBINESS»

The term «shabbiness» is normally little used and occupies the 127.509 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHABBINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shabbiness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shabbiness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shabbiness

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QUOTES WITH «SHABBINESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shabbiness.
1
Jane Austen
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHABBINESS»

Discover the use of shabbiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shabbiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare
For some people the shabbiness of NHS premises came to have a counter- intuitive value. It is as if they said: Look at this, so shabby and uncomfortable. It is clearly not a profit- making business but something different, which values treatment ...
Jamie Harrison (general practitioner.), Rob Innes, T. D. Van Zwanenberg, 2003
2
Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community
If, however, we make room for partial, inherited loyalties in our vision of liberal politics, are we not, as John Dunn suggests, indulging in a kind of “moral shabbiness”?18 It is hard to see things any other way as long as we cling to a Kantian or ...
Bernard Yack, 2012
3
Belgravia
Very different to the shabbiness of the barrister is the shabbiness of the attorney, when he is shabby. He is often carefully dressed; for he is brought face to face with clients and witnesses much more frequently than the barrister, who, save ...
‎1867
4
Belgravia
Very different to the shabbiness of the barrister is the shabbiness of the attorney, when he is shabby. He is often carefully dressed; for he is brought face to face with clients and witnesses much more frequently than the barrister, who, save ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1867
5
The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature
Very different to the shabbiness of the barrister is the shabbiness of the attorney, when he is shabby. He is often carefully dressed; for he is brought face to face with clients and witnesses much more frequently than the barrister, who, save ...
‎1867
6
Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same
as the "spirit of humanity" — until it finally goes about dressed only in rags. In humane liberalism, shabbiness is perfected. We must first . . . descend to the most shabby if We want to achieve ownness,T126 for We must take off everything alien.
Karl Löwith, 1997
7
The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories
He had been plain, pale-faced, red-nosed, and his smile had been bleak. He was exactly the same, but his intelligent, sparkling eyes still cut right through me. But apart from that his outward appearance had taken on that Russian shabbiness I ...
Nina Nikolaevna Berberova, 2001
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The Eclectic Magazine
Very different to the shabbiness of the barrister is the shabbiness of the attorney, when he is shabby. He is often carefully dressed; for he is brought face to face with clients and witnesses much more frequently than the barrister, who, save ...
John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, 1867
9
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: ...
14 nonetheless, i dare not criticize shabbiness of clothing, unless it has to do with hypocrisy, which the preacher should avoid not only in his clothing but also in everything else, and indeed he should beware lest anything appear in him that ...
William Randolph Robins, Robert William Epstein, 2010
10
Victorian and Edwardian Surrey
SHABBINESS. Now, alas! allworkpeople, except those who do the hardest outdoor labour, such as navvies, stonepitmen, and farmlabourers, are clothed in a deadlevel of shabbiness. The shops are full of cheap suits with a pretence offashion ...
Aylwin Guilmant, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHABBINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shabbiness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
On Indian coffee houses
To understand shabbiness - its colours and its perfume - one has to understand modernity. One has also to comprehend the aesthetics of socialism, and the ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jun 15»
2
Malta's overall shabbiness
Furthermore, attention should be given to the removal of eyesores, such as unsightly hanging electricity cables, public clocks not working and shabby tattered ... «Times of Malta, Jun 15»
3
Vintage couture is breaking into the most exclusive circles
... role in lifting beautiful old dresses away from any connotations of shabbiness – or even shabby-chicness – and onto a new, elevated, beyond-luxury plane. «Newsweek, May 15»
4
Brian Rudman: Catton clash shabby, but trumps the Harawiras
In the Guardian, she condemned "the scale and shabbiness of this jingoistic national ... Just as shabby was her swipe at the local book world, complaining that ... «New Zealand Herald, Feb 15»
5
Eleanor Catton blasts critics' 'jingoistic national tantrum'
Catton condemned “the scale and shabbiness of this jingoistic national tantrum”, which she said “ashames me deeply as a New Zealander”. “I believe it can be ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
6
How Do You Make Selling Pot Stylish?
... is booming - but the still-young industry is holding on to a lot of the shadiness and shabbiness of something still illegal (which arguably it is, under federal law.) ... «Complex.com, Oct 14»
7
Russian Communist park restored amid wave of nostalgia
Moscow (AFP) - Sliding into shabbiness after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a giant Moscow complex extolling the days of the old planned economy has ... «Yahoo News, Aug 14»
8
Exploring Lisbon's back streets and rich culture
Bent Alfama houses comfort each other in their romantic shabbiness, and the air drips with laundry and the smell of clams. Favorite saints decorate doors to ... «The Seattle Times, Aug 14»
9
Dubai seeks to attract 180 million visitors to world's largest shopping …
... may have few admirers at home these days but its allure abroad remains undimmed, with Dubai apparently keen to imitate its overcrowded shabbiness. «The Times, Jul 14»
10
LibreSSL, Linux Foundation, Play Store refunds and Viber …
LibreSSL, Linux Foundation, Play Store refunds and Viber shabbiness - 60 Sec .... 리눅스 재단, 플레이 스토어 환불 및 Viber의 shabbiness - 60 초 보안 [VIDEO] ... «Naked Security, Apr 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Shabbiness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/shabbiness>. May 2024 ».
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