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nastiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of nastiness

1 the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm

  • there was a natural nastiness about him that was evident from the time he was a small child
Synonyms of nastiness

cattiness, despite, hatefulness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom, viciousness
Words Related to nastiness

abusiveness, cruelty

abhorrence, abomination, execration, hate, hatred, loathing

animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, grudge, hostility, ill will, jaundice, mean-spiritedness, rancor, resentment

despicableness, invidiousness

vengefulness, vindictiveness

aversion, disgust, distaste, horror, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion

bitchery, bitchiness, contempt, disdain

jealousy, pique, resentment, scorn

bile, rancor, virulence, vitriol
Near Antonyms of nastiness

devotion, love, passion

amiability, amicability, amity, civility, cordiality, friendliness, hospitality

adoration, ardor, infatuation, veneration, worship

affection, charity, kindliness, kindness

comity, empathy, friendship, goodwill, sympathy, understanding

2 the quality or state of being obscene

  • the nastiness of the graffiti required that the school remove it immediately
Synonyms of nastiness

bawdiness, blueness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, grossness, impureness, impurity, indecency, lasciviousness, lewdness, obscenity, profanity, raunch, raunchiness, ribaldry, smut, smuttiness, vulgarity, wantonness
Words Related to nastiness

broadness, earthiness, gaminess, raciness, saltiness, suggestiveness

immodesty, indecorousness, indelicacy, indelicateness, lowness, unbecomingness

lechery

depravedness, depravity, kinkiness, naughtiness, perverseness, perversion, perversity, pervertedness, wickedness

exceptionability, objectionableness, unacceptability, undesirability

reprehensibility, reprehensibleness

abusiveness, scurrilousness

atrociousness, atrocity, infamy, loathsomeness, offensiveness, repellency, repugnance, repulsiveness

distastefulness, obnoxiousness, unpleasantness
Near Antonyms of nastiness

priggery, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanism

correctness, decency, decorousness, decorum, seemliness

appropriateness, fitness, suitability, suitableness

perfection, purity, spotlessness

3 the state or quality of being dirty

  • the piles of rotting food in the kitchen were only one element in the apartment's general impression of appalling nastiness
Synonyms of nastiness

blackness, dinge, dinginess, dirtiness, dustiness, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, smuttiness, soilage, sordidness, squalidness, uncleanliness, uncleanness
Words Related to nastiness

discoloration, staining

impureness, impurity

messiness, mussiness, sloppiness, untidiness

insanitation, squalor

muddiness, sootiness
Near Antonyms of nastiness

purity
Antonyms of nastiness

cleanliness, spotlessness

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