Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The quality of being catty; cattishness

    2004 Ward Hunt et.al. - James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers Who had been tapped for the new society, and why, had become a topic of local gossip, conjecture, and even cattiness.

More definitions
  • malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

Forms

plural: cattinesses
Singularcattiness

uncountable

Synonyms

4 synonyms
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Word family

1 related words
Relatedcatty

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