meanness

English

Etymology

mean +‎ -ness

Noun

meanness (countable and uncountable, plural meannesses)

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

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

2. (countable) A mean act.
   • 1908, The World's Work (volume 16, page 10497)

     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.

Antonyms

• nobility
• nobleness

Translations

the condition or quality of being mean

• Bulgarian: низост (bg) f (nizost), подлост (bg) f (podlost)
• Dutch: gemeenheid (nl) f
• Greek: αχρειότητα (el) f (achreiótita)
• Irish: cneámhaireacht f, suarachas m
• Italian: grettezza (it) f, meschinità (it) f, taccagneria (it) f
• Japanese: 卑劣 (ja) (hiretsu), 下劣 (ja) (geretsu)
• Latvian: zemiskums m

a mean act

• Esperanto: malnoblaĵo
• Dutch: gemene daad f
• French: abjection (fr)
• German: Gemeinheit (de) f, Fiesheit f, gemeines Benehmen n

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Translations to be checked

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

References

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