NASTINESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does nastiness mean?
• NASTINESS (noun)
The noun NASTINESS has 3 senses:
1. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
2. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
3. the quality of being unpleasant
Familiarity information: NASTINESS used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• NASTINESS (noun)
Meaning:
A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
filthiness; nastiness; foulness; filth
Hypernyms ("nastiness" is a kind of...):
unsanitariness (a state that is not conducive to health)
Meaning:
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bitchiness; cattiness; spitefulness; spite; nastiness
Hypernyms ("nastiness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)
Meaning:
The quality of being unpleasant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
I flinched at the nastiness of his wound
Hypernyms ("nastiness" is a kind of...):
unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)
Attribute:
awful; nasty (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nastiness"):
beastliness (unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather)
Antonym:
niceness (the quality of nice)
