meanness
nounEtymology
From mean + -ness.
- derived from *mey-✻
- derived from *meyno-✻
- derived from *meyn-✻
- inherited from *mainijaną✻
- inherited from *mainijan✻
- inherited from mǣnan
- inherited from menen
Definitions
The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
- This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.
A mean act.
- There are enough meannesses in everyone — ourselves included — to make for us a contemptible world, if we select the meannesses and let our minds dwell upon them.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for meanness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA