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NASTINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being highly unpleasant
Example:
I flinched at the nastiness of his wound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("nastiness" is a kind of...):
unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)
Attribute:
awful; nasty (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nastiness"):
beastliness (unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather)
Antonym:
niceness (the quality of nice)
Derivation:
nasty (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)
Sense 2
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 ("nastiness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)
Derivation:
nasty (characterized by obscenity)
nasty (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
Synonyms:
filth; filthiness; foulness; nastiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("nastiness" is a kind of...):
unsanitariness (a state that is not conducive to health)
Derivation:
nasty (disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter)
