Meanness

noun

noun ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions) uncountable

    "This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship."

  2. 2
    extreme stinginess wordnet
  3. 3
    A mean act. countable

    "There are enough meannesses in everyone — ourselves included — to make for us a contemptible world, if we select the meannesses and let our minds dwell upon them."

  4. 4
    the quality of being deliberately mean wordnet

Synonyms

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abjectnessabominablenessatrociousnessausterityauthoritarianismavarice

Example

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"I took for granted that he was above such meanness."

Etymology

From mean + -ness.

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