nastiness

1. 1.

   a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

   Synonymsfilthfilthinessfoulness

   Broaderunsanitariness
2. 2.

   malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

   Synonymscattinessbitchinessspitespitefulness

   Broadermalevolence
3. 3.

   the quality of being highly unpleasant

   “I flinched at the nastiness of his wound”

   Antonymsniceness

   Broaderunpleasantness

   Narrowerbeastliness

Other forms of nastiness

plural

nastinesses·

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 nastiness

What does nastiness mean?

nastiness means "a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nastiness?

nastiness has 3 syllables: nas-ti-ness. The stress falls on "nas". In IPA it is /ˈnæstinəs/.

What is another word for nastiness?

Close synonyms include filth, filthiness, foulness, cattiness, bitchiness. 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.

What is the opposite of nastiness?

The recorded antonyms are niceness.

Is nastiness a common word?

nastiness 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.