Illth

//ɪlθ// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The opposite of wealth; that which, by its possession, causes damage of some kind. uncountable

Etymology

From ill + -th (abstract nominal suffix), coined by John Ruskin as an opposite for wealth, in the sense of ill being the opposite of well.

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