cattiness

1. 1.

   malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

   Synonymsbitchinessspitespitefulnessnastiness

   Broadermalevolence

Other forms of cattiness

plural

cattinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cattiness

What does cattiness mean?

cattiness means "malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty".

How many syllables are in cattiness?

cattiness has 3 syllables: cat-ti-ness. The stress falls on "cat".

What is another word for cattiness?

Close synonyms include bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness. 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 cattiness a common word?

cattiness 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.