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NAUGHTINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An attribute of mischievous children
Synonyms:
badness; mischievousness; naughtiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("naughtiness" is a kind of...):
disobedience (the trait of being unwilling to obey)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "naughtiness"):
prankishness; rascality; roguishness (the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks)
Derivation:
naughty (badly behaved)
