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deservingness

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Noun1.deservingness - the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); "there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"
meritoriousness, merit
worthiness - the quality or state of having merit or value


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At this point, a sense of deservingness slides into greed and self-righteousness, to be nourished through prejudice, stereotype, narrow reasoning, arbitrary distinctions between "us" and "them" and active derogation of those we learn to despise as we pursue the process of suspecting their desert.
Getting what we deserve by Pelton, Leroy H. / The Humanist
However, the actual meaning of policy is conferred by the conditions of deservingness.
Cleavage in American attitudes toward social welfare by Epstein, William M. / Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
I infer that it would be very difficult for sustainable social policy to rest exclusively on either the openhandedness of need-based entitlements or the rigor of conduct-based deservingness.
According to their desert by Galston, William A. / Commonweal
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