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badassness

badassness noun: the quality or state of being badass.

Noun

badassness (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) The quality or state of being badass.
    • She led her lady mateys to great riches, eventually becoming captain of yet another crew, this time of male pirates who were entranced by her beauty and devoted to her badassness.2013, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings, page 18
    • You get a cold smackdown if you don't at least feign badassness and say you've smoked weed.2014, Bill Landauer, We Are All Crew, page 38
    Synonyms:
    badassery

Synonyms of badassness

Origin of badassness

From badass + -ness.

Questions about badassness

What does badassness mean?
Badassness means the quality or state of being badass.
What part of speech is badassness?
Badassness is a noun.

Words near badassness in the dictionary

  1. badass
  2. badassed
  3. badassery
  4. badasses
  5. badassitude
  6. badassness
  7. badassy
  8. badaud
  9. badauds
  10. Badawi
  11. Badawis

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