Definitions for Meanness
mean·ness

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beastliness, meannessnoun

   the quality of being deliberately mean

2. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closenessnoun

   extreme stinginess

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1. meannessnoun

   The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

   This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison

2. meannessnoun

   A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.

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1. Meanness

   Meanness is a personal quality whose classical form, discussed by many from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas, characterizes it as a vice of "lowness", but whose modern form deals more with cruelty.

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1. meanness

   Meanness refers to the quality or state of being unkind, spiteful, or malicious. It often involves cruelty, pettiness, stinginess, or a lack of generosity. It can also refer to low quality or poor condition of something.

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1. Meannessnoun

   the condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess

2. Meannessnoun

   a mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness

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1. • Malevolence

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Meanness in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Meanness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Meanness in a Sentence

1. Al Hunt:

   Donald Trump's Donald Trump, not because I disagree with Donald Trump policies -- though I disagree with many -- but I think there is a carelessness, a recklessness, meanness and, I think, corruption.

2. John Adams:

   It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

4. Plato:

   Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

5. President Trump:

   We see this horrible, horrible, radical group of Democrats. You see what’s happening right now, and they’re determined to take back power by any means necessary. You see the meanness, the nastiness. They don’t care who they hurt, who they have to run over to get power.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Meanness
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Meanness
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Meanness
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanness
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Meanness