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Etymology

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From mean +‎ -ness.

Noun

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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.

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