Word Meanings - BASENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BASENESS)

• Meanness
• Penuriousness
• littleness
• selfishness
• baseness
• smallness
• illiberality
• ungenerousness
• sordidness
• Turpitude
• Baseness
• vileness
• depravity
• badness
• wickedness
• disgracefulness

Related words: (words related to BASENESS)

• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• BASENESS
  The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• DEPRAVITY
  The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn.
• MEANNESS
  1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• WICKEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness. God saw that the wickedness of man was great. Gen. vi. 5. Their inward part is very
• TURPITUDE
  Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. Shak.
• BADNESS
  The state of being bad.
• ILLIBERALITY
  The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.