CATTINESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

Synonyms:

bitchiness; cattiness; nastiness; spite; spitefulness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("cattiness" is a kind of...):

malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)

Derivation:

catty (marked by or arising from malice)

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