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Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

English meanness

From mean + -ness.

meanness (countable and uncountable, plural meannesses)

1. (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
   • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Florence”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
     This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.
2. (countable) A mean act.
   • 1908, The World's Work, volume 16, page 10497:
     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.

• meandom
• nobility
• nobleness

the condition or quality of being mean

• Bulgarian: низост (bg) f (nizost), подлост (bg) f (podlost)

• Dutch: gemeenheid (nl) f

• French: radinerie (fr) f, pingrerie (fr) f

• Greek: αχρειότητα (el) f (achreiótita)

• Irish: cneámhaireacht f, suarachas m

• Italian: grettezza (it) f, meschinità (it) f, taccagneria (it) f

• Japanese: 卑劣 (ja) (hiretsu), 下劣 (ja) (geretsu)

• Latvian: zemiskums m

• Polish: draństwo (pl) n, nikczemność (pl) f, podłość (pl) f

• Spanish: tacañería f

• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: رذالت (rezâlet) (vileness)

• “meanness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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