Noun: meanness meen-nus
- The quality of being deliberately mean
"Her meanness to her employees led to high staff turnover";
- beastliness
- Extreme stinginess
"Her meanness extended to reusing tea bags multiple times";
- minginess [informal], niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
Type of: malevolence, malevolency, malice, stinginess [informal]
Encyclopedia: Meanness