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CATTINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Synonyms:
bitchiness; cattiness; nastiness; spite; spitefulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("cattiness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)
Derivation:
catty (marked by or arising from malice)