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scornfulness

scornfulness noun: the quality of being scornful.

Noun

scornfulness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being scornful.
    • It bears no real resemblance to that attitude of negativity and jaded scornfulness that sees the worst of intentions behind the apparent good motives of others.2009 April 1, Simon Critchley, “Cynicism We Can Believe In”, in New York Times

scornfulness meaning in Tamil

scornfulness in Tamil

வெறுப்புடைமை

Origin of scornfulness

From scornful + -ness.

Questions about scornfulness

What does scornfulness mean?
Scornfulness means the quality of being scornful.
What is scornfulness in Tamil?
Scornfulness in Tamil is வெறுப்புடைமை. See Scornfulness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scornfulness?
Scornfulness is a noun.

Words near scornfulness in the dictionary

  1. scornful
  2. scornfulest
  3. scornfull
  4. scornfullest
  5. scornfully
  6. scornfulness
  7. Scornicești
  8. scorning
  9. scorningly
  10. scornings
  11. scornless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scornfulness (page history and authors); scornfulness (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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