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CRAVENNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cravenness mean?
• CRAVENNESS (noun)
The noun CRAVENNESS has 1 sense:
1. meanspirited cowardice
Familiarity information: CRAVENNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meanspirited cowardice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("cravenness" is a kind of...):
cowardice; cowardliness (the trait of lacking courage)
Derivation:
craven (lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful)
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