meanness

English

Alternative forms

• meaness

Etymology

mean +‎ -ness

Noun

meanness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural meannesses)

1. (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

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

2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.

Antonyms

• nobility
• nobleness

Translations

the condition or quality of being mean

• Irish: cneámhaireacht f
• Italian: grettezza f, meschinità (it) f, taccagneria f

• Japanese: 卑劣 (ja) ‎(hiretsu), 下劣 ‎(geretsu)
• Latvian: zemiskums m

a mean act

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} mezquindad (es) f

References

• meanness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913