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mean·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
beastliness, meannessnoun
the quality of being deliberately mean
meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closenessnoun
extreme stinginess
Wiktionary
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
meannessnoun
A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wikipedia
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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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.
Webster Dictionary
Meannessnoun
the condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess
Meannessnoun
a mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of meanness in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of meanness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of meanness in a Sentence
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.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
It could be my fault, i don't want to necessarily blame, but there's a great meanness out there that I'm surprised at.
So trying out meanness is not something we can or should eradicate, it's normal to want to feel powerful and to exert influence on your environment. It's healthy. What is unhealthy is when the means by which a child does that is at the social expense of another.
The more meanness they see being successful or rewarded in the home or in their environment, the more children will revert to those mean behaviors themselves when faced with challenging social situations.
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