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