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3 definitions for meanness From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Meanness \Mean"ness\, n.
1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of
excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness;
stinginess.
[1913 Webster]
This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of
the workmanship. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. --Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster] meanspirited
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
meanness
n 1: the quality of being deliberately mean [syn: beastliness]
2: extreme stinginess [syn: minginess, niggardliness, niggardness,
parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness,
closeness]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
209 Moby Thesaurus words for "meanness":
Lenten fare, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, austerity,
authoritarianism, baseness, bearishness, beggarliness, bigotry,
bitchiness, blind side, blind spot, blinders, cantankerousness,
cheapness, churlishness, closed mind, coarseness, commonness,
commonplaceness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, crabbedness,
cramped ideas, crankiness, crossness, crumminess, crustiness,
cussedness, daintiness, debasement, deficiency, degradation,
delicacy, depravity, despicableness, devilment, devilry, deviltry,
diminutiveness, disagreeability, enormity, evil intent,
excitability, execrableness, exiguity, exiguousness, failure,
fanaticism, fewness, foulness, fourth-rateness, fractiousness,
fulsomeness, gaudiness, grossness, harmfulness, hatefulness,
heinousness, helotism, helotry, hideboundness, homeliness,
huffiness, huffishness, humbleness, humility, ignobility,
illiberality, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence,
inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, inferiority, inferiorness,
ingloriousness, iniquitousness, innocuousness, insignificance,
insufficiency, insularism, insularity, invidiousness, irascibility,
irritability, jejuneness, jejunity, leanness, little-mindedness,
littleness, lowlihood, lowliness, lowness, maladroitness,
maleficence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense,
maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meagerness,
mean mind, mediocrity, meekness, menialness, meretriciousness,
meritlessness, minginess, minuteness, miserableness, miserliness,
moderateness, modesty, monstrousness, narrow sympathies,
narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nastiness,
nearsightedness, nefariousness, niggardliness, noxiousness,
obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium theologicum, ordinariness,
orneriness, paltriness, parochialism, parsimony, penuriousness,
peonage, perversity, pettiness, petty mind, picayunishness,
pitiableness, pitifulness, plainness, plebeianism, pokiness,
poorness, provincialism, puniness, purblindness, rankness, sadness,
scabbiness, scantiness, scantness, scrawniness, scrimpiness,
scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, second-rateness,
serfdom, servility, shabbiness, shoddiness, shortsightedness,
shut mind, simpleness, skimpiness, slavery, slavishness,
slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness,
snappishness, sordidness, sorriness, spareness, squalor,
stinginess, straitlacedness, stuffiness, submissiveness,
subnormality, subservience, subserviency, teachableness, testiness,
thinness, third-rateness, tininess, triviality, ugliness,
uncatholicity, ungenerousness, unimportance, unmagnanimousness,
unpretentiousness, unskillfulness, unworthiness, vileness,
vulgarity, waspishness, wickedness, worthlessness, wretchedness
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