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名詞

meanness (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

同意語

• meandom

反意語

• nobility
• nobleness

参照

• “meanness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.