meanness
meanness noun: the condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions).
Noun
meanness (countable and uncountable, plural meannesses)
- The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
- This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Florence”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- 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.1908, The World's Work, volume 16, page 10497
meanness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
meanness in Tamil
- சின்னத்தனம், அற்பபுத்தி, அற்பத்தனம், சிறுமை, இழிகுணம், ஈனம்
meanness in Urdu
- چھچھورا پن, کمینہ پن, خثت, پاجی پن
meanness in Malayalam
- meanness
- അശട് aśaṭŭ
meanness in Kannada
- ನಾಯಿತನ, ನಾಯ್ತನ, ಕಿಸುಕುಳತ್ವ, ಅಗಡು
More languagesFewer languages
- meanness in Sanskrit
- कार्पण्य kārpaṇya, कल्क kalka
Synonyms of meanness
Antonyms
Forms of meanness
| plural | meannesses |
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Origin of meanness
From mean + -ness.
Questions about meanness
- What does meanness mean?
- Meanness means the condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions).
- What is meanness in Tamil?
- Meanness in Tamil is சின்னத்தனம், அற்பபுத்தி, அற்பத்தனம். See Meanness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is meanness?
- Meanness is a noun.
- What is the plural of meanness?
- The plural of meanness is meannesses.
Words near meanness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: meanness (page history and authors); meanness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meanness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അശട് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); meanness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कल्क (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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