cattinessn.
= cattishness n. at cattish adj. Derivatives.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > [noun]
maliciousness1447
peevishness1468
spitefulness1530
sinisterness1611
viciousness1879
cattishness1894
cattiness1920
bitchiness1934
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [noun] > quality
maliciousness1447
peevishness1468
spitefulness1530
sinisterness1611
viciousness1879
cattishness1894
pussycat1911
cattiness1920
bitchiness1934
1920 19th Cent. Nov. 752 Her antagonism to her own sex—known colloquially as ‘cattiness’.
1928 Sunday Express 6 May 4 Manx folk are wonderfully good-natured,..and cattiness..is practically non-existent.
1951 R. A. Knox Stimuli iii. v. 98 It is not an impossible Lenten resolution to give up..the delights of saying ‘I told you so’: to cut from our conversation..the spirit which I think St. Paul..would probably have labelled ‘cattiness’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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