Word.ws English Dictionary

sassiness

sassiness noun: the quality of being sassy.

Noun

sassiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being sassy.
    • “I like to say that Wendy has a brashness, a sassiness to her, that she’s loud in a very good way, in look and point of view,” said Lonnie Burstein, the executive vice president of programming at Debmar-Mercury, the production company behind the TV show.2009 July 5, Melena Ryzik, “She’s Ready for Millions of Her Closest Friends”, in New York Times

Origin of sassiness

From sassy + -ness.

Questions about sassiness

What does sassiness mean?
Sassiness means the quality of being sassy.
What part of speech is sassiness?
Sassiness is a noun.

Words near sassiness in the dictionary

  1. sasses
  2. Sassi
  3. sassier
  4. sassiest
  5. sassily
  6. sassiness
  7. sassing
  8. sassinger
  9. sassingers
  10. Sassis
  11. Sassnitz

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sassiness (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sassiness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sassiness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.