Definition of "deservingness" []

• The state or quality of being deserving. (noun)

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• "The birther movement, Lewis argued, is completely fueled by this emotional connection to deservingness, which is primed primarily by racial resentment."
• "In fact, because those are measures of "deservingness", of worth, it's probably fair to a large degree."
• "There is a sense of failure and self-deservingness where you think you have the right to walk away from the place with beach vacation best friends and final loves, the pages that confirm an assumed prophecy."