Synonyms for meanness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Stinginess
stinginess, parsimony, cheapness, closeness, niggardliness, tightness, illiberality, minginess, penuriousness, parsimoniousness, niggardness, tightfistedness, avarice
2. Vulgarity
vulgarity, vileness, servility, lowliness, baseness, despicableness, lowness, sordidness, abjectness, contemptibleness
Other
smallness, poorness, slenderness, littleness, scantiness, churlishness, ingloriousness, ungenerousness, beastliness, unnobleness, cussedness dated, meandom rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
- n. 2
A mean act.
Forms
- Plural
- meannesses → stinginesses, parsimonies, cheapnesses, closenesses…
Example sentences
- closeness I don't fear the closeness between different peoples.
- cheapness If the reason to buy is its cheapness, I won't buy it.
- stinginess There's a big difference between frugality and stinginess.
- vulgarity I don't mind your smoking, but I mind your vulgarity.
- vileness Poverty is not vileness, nor is wealth nobility.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| meanness | steady | |
| closeness | rising | |
| cheapness | falling | |
| parsimony | rising | |
| stinginess | rising | |
| vulgarity | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- avarice3, lowness, meandom
- 8 letters
- vileness, baseness, poorness
- 9 letters
- closeness2, tightness2, vulgarity4, cheapness2, smallness2, parsimony4, servility4, lowliness, minginess
- 10 letters
- stinginess3, littleness, sordidness, cussedness, scantiness3, abjectness
- 11 letters
- slenderness, beastliness, niggardness, unnobleness
- 12 letters
- illiberality, churlishness
- 13 letters
- niggardliness4, penuriousness
- 14 letters
- despicableness, ingloriousness, ungenerousness
- 15 letters
- tightfistedness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (avarice3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
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