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countable and uncountable, plural meannesses
(uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions) quotations examples
This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.
1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Florence”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
(countable) A mean act. quotations examples
There are enough meannesses in everyone — ourselves included — to make for us a contemptible world, if we select the meannesses and let our minds dwell upon them.
1908, The World's Work, volume 16, page 10497