Definition: meanness

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

meanness
     n 1: the quality of being deliberately mean [syn: beastliness]
     2: extreme stinginess [syn: minginess, niggardliness, niggardness,
         parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness,
         closeness]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.