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Narrowness vs Meanness - What's the difference?

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Narrowness is a related term of meanness.


In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between narrowness and meanness

is that narrowness is (uncountable) the state of being narrow while meanness is (uncountable) the condition, or quality, of being ; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

As nouns the difference between narrowness and meanness

is that narrowness is (uncountable) the state of being narrow while meanness is (uncountable) the condition, or quality, of being ; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

narrowness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being narrow
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to}}
  • (countable) a constriction

    • Antonyms

    *(state of being narrow) broadness, wideness

    meanness

    English

    Alternative forms

    * meaness

    Noun

    (es)
  • (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being ; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
    • This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison
  • A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness .

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