Webster's 1828 Dictionary
MEANNESS
n.Want of dignity or rank; low state; as meanness of birth or condition. Poverty is not always meanness; it may be connected with it, but men of dignified minds and manners are often poor. 1. Want of excellence of any kind; poorness; rudeness.
This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.
2. Lowness of mind; want of dignity and elevation; want of honor. Meanness in men incurs contempt. All dishonesty is meanness.
3. Sordidness; niggardliness; opposed to liberality or charitableness. Meanness is very different from frugality.
4. Want of richness; poorness; as the meanness of dress or equipage.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
MEANNESS
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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
meanness
mean ness |ˈmēnˈnis | ▶noun 1 unkindness, spitefulness, or unfairness: all the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us. • aggressive character; viciousness: he is also callous, with a streak of meanness. 2 lack of quality or attractiveness; shabbiness: the meanness of that existence.
Oxford Dictionary
meanness
mean |ness |ˈmiːnnɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 chiefly Brit. lack of generosity; miserliness. 2 unkindness, spitefulness, or unfairness: all the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us. • N. Amer. aggressive character; viciousness: he is also callous, with a streak of meanness. 3 lack of quality or attractiveness; shabbiness: the meanness of that existence.
Oxford Thesaurus
meanness
meanness noun 1 his careful attitude towards money bordered on meanness: miserliness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penury, illiberality, greed, avarice, acquisitiveness; informal stinginess, tight-fistedness, tightness, minginess; N. Amer. cheapness; archaic nearness. ANTONYMS generosity. 2 the filth and meanness of the place: squalor, squalidness, shabbiness, dilapidation, sordidness, seediness, sleaziness, insalubriousness, wretchedness, dismalness, dinginess, poverty; informal scruffiness, scuzziness, crumminess, grunginess, tackiness; Brit. informal grottiness. 3 his meanness of temper: nastiness, mean-spiritedness, spitefulness, disagreeableness, unpleasantness, unkindness.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
meanness
m é an ness 名詞 U 1 けち ; さもしさ .2 意地の悪さ .
The Wordsmith Dictionary