BEASTLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beastliness mean? 

• BEASTLINESS (noun)
  The noun BEASTLINESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being deliberately mean

2. unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather

  Familiarity information: BEASTLINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEASTLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being deliberately mean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

beastliness; meanness

Hypernyms ("beastliness" is a kind of...):

malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)

Derivation:

beastly (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("beastliness" is a kind of...):

nastiness (the quality of being highly unpleasant)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

beastly ((informal) very unpleasant)

 Context examples 

The desires for the good grub and soft beds ashore which a handsome pay-day brings them—the women and the drink, the gorging and the beastliness which so truly expresses them, the best that is in them, their highest aspirations, their ideals, if you please.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)