meanness

Etymology

mean + -ness

noun

  1. (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
  2. (countable) 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

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