meanness

Other forms of meanness

plural

meannesses·

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 meanness

What does meanness mean?

meanness 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 meanness?

meanness has 2 syllables: mean-ness. The stress falls on "mean". In IPA it is /ˈminnəs/.

What is another word for meanness?

Close synonyms include beastliness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony. 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 meanness a common word?

meanness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.