NAUGHTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naughtiness mean? 

• NAUGHTINESS (noun)
  The noun NAUGHTINESS has 1 sense:

1. an attribute of mischievous children

  Familiarity information: NAUGHTINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAUGHTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An attribute of mischievous children

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

badness; mischievousness; naughtiness

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

disobedience (the trait of being unwilling to obey)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "naughtiness"):

prankishness; rascality; roguishness (the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks)

Derivation:

naughty (badly behaved)

 Context examples 

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)