meritoriousness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded
Types & categories
- worthiness hypernym
Related & opposite
- merit derivation
- worthp derivation
- meritorious derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | merit |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | worthp |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | meritorious |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | worthiness |