Slightness vs Meanness - What's the difference?
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The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness
:Poor nutrition explained his slightness .
(uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being ; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness .
Slightness is a related term of meanness.
As nouns the difference between slightness and meanness
is that slightness is the property of being slight, smallness, petiteness while meanness is (uncountable) the condition, or quality, of being ; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.slightness
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(slightnesses)meanness
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* meanessNoun
(es)- This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison