beastliness

Questions about beastliness

What does beastliness mean?

beastliness means "the quality of being deliberately mean". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beastliness?

beastliness has 4 syllables: be-ast-li-ness. The stress falls on "ast".

What is another word for beastliness?

Close synonyms include meanness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beastliness a common word?

beastliness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.