Why this word is great
IGNOBILITY — [Noun] The state or condition of being ignoble, characterized by baseness, commonness, or dishonor. From the Latin ignōbilitās, from ignōbilis ("not noble, unknown, base") + -itās ("-ity, denoting state or condition"). Unlike "ignominy" (which is the specific stain of public disgrace) or "vulgarity" (which is a crudeness of manner), ignobility is the quiet, intrinsic soil from which such weeds grow—an inherent lack of elevation in character. It is the petty betrayal whispered for small gain, the chronic preference for the convenient over the courageous, and the soul's gradual surrender to resentment—the tragedy not of a fall from grace, but of never having risen at all.