meanness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

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

2. 2
   noun

   A mean act.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   extreme stinginess

4. 4
   noun

   the quality of being deliberately mean

From mean + -ness.

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