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CUSSEDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cussedness mean?
• CUSSEDNESS (noun)
The noun CUSSEDNESS has 1 sense:
1. meanspirited disagreeable contrariness
Familiarity information: CUSSEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meanspirited disagreeable contrariness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
cussedness; orneriness
Hypernyms ("cussedness" is a kind of...):
contrariness; perverseness; perversity (deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline)
Derivation:
cussed (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing)
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