Synonyms for baseness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Turpitude — the quality or condition of being base
turpitude, vileness, depravity, wickedness, sinfulness, perversion, sin, badness, degradation, malignity, degeneracy, iniquity, pollution, scoundrelism, depravation, peccability, misdoing, villainy, impurity, obliquity, depravedness, vitiation
2. Meanness
meanness, worthlessness, despicableness, sordidness, despicability, contemptibility
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality or condition of being base.
- n. 2
The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.
Forms
- Plural
- basenesses → turpitudes, vilenesses, depravities, wickednesses…
Example sentences
- wickedness The desire of wickedness came up in your heart.
- depravity Depravity is becoming the norm in modern life.
- vileness Poverty is not vileness, nor is wealth nobility.
- meanness I took for granted that he was above such meanness.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| baseness | steady | |
| wickedness | rising | |
| depravity | rising | |
| turpitude | falling | |
| vileness | rising | |
| meanness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- sin1
- 7 letters
- badness2
- 8 letters
- iniquity4, impurity4, villainy, meanness2, vileness, misdoing
- 9 letters
- pollution3, depravity4, turpitude3, obliquity, servility4, malignity, vitiation
- 10 letters
- wickedness3, perversion3, degeneracy5, sinfulness, sordidness, abjectness
- 11 letters
- degradation4, depravation4, peccability, poltroonery
- 12 letters
- scoundrelism, depravedness
- 13 letters
- worthlessness, despicability
- 14 letters
- despicableness
- 15 letters
- contemptibility
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (badness2 = 2 syllables).