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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meanness \Mean"ness\, n.
1. The condition, or quality, of being mean want of
excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness;
stinginess.
This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of
the workmanship. --Addison.
2. A mean act as to be guilty of meanness. --Goldsmith.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
meanness
n 1: the quality of being deliberately mean [syn: {beastliness}]
2: extreme stinginess [syn: {minginess}, {niggardliness}, {niggardness},
{parsimony}, {parsimoniousness}, {tightness}, {tightfistedness},
{closeness}]
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