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CATTINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cattiness mean?
• CATTINESS (noun)
The noun CATTINESS has 1 sense:
1. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Familiarity information: CATTINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bitchiness; cattiness; nastiness; spite; spitefulness
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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