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MEANNESS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does meanness mean?

• MEANNESS (noun)
The noun MEANNESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being deliberately mean
2. extreme stinginess

Familiarity information: MEANNESS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MEANNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being deliberately mean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

beastliness; meanness

Hypernyms ("meanness" is a kind of...):

malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Extreme stinginess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

minginess; niggardliness; niggardness; tightfistedness; parsimoniousness; meanness; parsimony; tightness; closeness

Hypernyms ("meanness" is a kind of...):

stinginess (a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meanness"):

littleness; pettiness; smallness (lack of generosity in trifling matters)

miserliness (total lack of generosity with money)

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