badassness

noun

badassness

noun

Etymology From badass + -ness.

1

US, Slang The quality or state of being badass.

Sometimes considered vulgar

She led her lady mateys to great riches, eventually becoming captain of yet another crew, this time of male pirates who were entranced by her beauty and devoted to her badassness.2013, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings, page 18:
You get a cold smackdown if you don't at least feign badassness and say you've smoked weed.2014, Bill Landauer, We Are All Crew, page 38:

1 more example

Produced by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo […] its tracks were more structured and cleaner than Magik Markers' earlier releases without watering down the band's innate badassness.2022, JR Moores, Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, unnumbered page

Synonyms: badassery

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