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語源

From badass +‎ -ness.

名詞

badassness (uncountable)

1. (US, sometimes considered vulgar, slang) The quality or state of being badass.
   • 2013, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings, page 18:

     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.

   • 2014, Bill Landauer, We Are All Crew, page 38:

     You get a cold smackdown if you don't at least feign badassness and say you've smoked weed.

   • 2022, JR Moores, Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, unnumbered page:

     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.

同意語

• badassery