Usually means: Deserving reward or praise; excellence.
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  1. meritoriousness: Merriam-Webster
  2. meritoriousness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meritoriousness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. meritoriousness: Vocabulary.com
  5. meritoriousness: Wordnik
  6. meritoriousness: Wiktionary
  7. meritoriousness: Dictionary.com
  8. meritoriousness: Rhymezone
  9. meritoriousness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. meritoriousness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. meritoriousness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. meritoriousness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. meritoriousness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. meritoriousness: Legal dictionary

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  1. meritoriousness: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The property of being meritorious.

Similar:
deservingness, merit, meretriciousness, meritedness, unmeritoriousness, worthiness, honorableness, remunerativeness, condignity, meritlessness, more...

Opposite:
demerit, unworthiness, incompetence, inadequacy

Types:
virtue, goodness, righteousness, nobility, excellence, worthiness, more...

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Similar:
deservingness, merit, meretriciousness, meritedness, unmeritoriousness, worthiness, honorableness, remunerativeness, condignity, meritlessness, more...

Opposite:
demerit, unworthiness, incompetence, inadequacy

Types:
virtue, goodness, righteousness, nobility, excellence, worthiness, more...



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