sordidness

Every possible care was taken of him, and in a day or two he was able to walk into the study again, where he sat gazing at the sordidness and unneatness of the apartment, the strange festoons and drapery of spiders' webs, […]

His was a nature — weak I own — that felt a sordidness in narrow means and their attendants ; the ugliness of poverty pained his spirit.