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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
James Russell Lowell

Meaning of "baseness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BASENESS

baseness  [ˈbeɪsnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BASENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Baseness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BASENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of baseness in the English dictionary

The definition of baseness in the dictionary is the quality of being morally base; immorality.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BASENESS


aimlessness
ˈeɪmlɪsnɪs
artlessness
ˈɑːtlɪsnɪs
childlessness
ˈtʃaɪldlɪsnɪs
conciseness
kənˈsaɪsnɪs
faithlessness
ˈfeɪθlɪsnɪs
fearlessness
ˈfɪəlɪsnɪs
fecklessness
ˈfɛklɪsnɪs
heartlessness
ˈhɑːtlɪsnɪs
homelessness
ˈhəʊmlɪsnɪs
lifelessness
ˈlaɪflɪsnɪs
nervelessness
ˈnɜːvlɪsnɪs
niceness
ˈnaɪsnɪs
preciseness
prɪˈsaɪsnɪs
relentlessness
rɪˈlɛntlɪsnɪs
remissness
rɪˈmɪsnɪs
senselessness
ˈsɛnslɪsnɪs
shamelessness
ˈʃeɪmlɪsnɪs
tactlessness
ˈtæktlɪsnɪs
tastelessness
ˈteɪstlɪsnɪs
worthlessness
ˈwɜːθlɪsnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BASENESS

baselard
baseless
baselessly
baselessness
baseline
baseline cost
baseliner
basely
baseman
basemen
basement
basement apartment
basement flat
basementless
basenji
baseplate
baserunner
baserunning
bases

WORDS THAT END LIKE BASENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of baseness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BASENESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «baseness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of baseness

Translation of «baseness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BASENESS

Find out the translation of baseness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of baseness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «baseness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卑鄙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bajeza
570 millions of speakers

English

baseness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

baseness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لؤم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подлость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

baixeza
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষুদ্রতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bassesse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesopanan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Niedrigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

baseness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

천함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Baseness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính đê tiện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இழிநிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

औदासिन्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

adilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bassezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podłość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підлість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ticăloșie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προστυχιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

laag van
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

baseness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nedrighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of baseness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BASENESS»

The term «baseness» is regularly used and occupies the 90.197 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of baseness
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BASENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «baseness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «baseness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about baseness

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5 QUOTES WITH «BASENESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word baseness.
1
Georg Brandes
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
2
George Gissing
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
3
James Russell Lowell
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
4
Josiah Royce
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
5
Leon Trotsky
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BASENESS»

Discover the use of baseness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to baseness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Baseness and Perniciousness of the Sin of Slandering and ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
Josiah Woodward, 2010
2
The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous ...
Baseness. Levizac [begins his neat collection of French synonyms with the words Abaissement and Bassesse. Lowering and Lowness arc the corresponding English words. Abasement is the passage downwards; baseness the state of being ...
John Aikin, 1808
3
English Synonyms Discriminated--
Abasement is the passage downwards ; baseness the state of being low. Bos is french for low. Abasement, as Christianity maintains, may ba ' meritorious ; it may be a voluntary stooping, a conquest over haughtiness, arrogance, pride. ' There-  ...
William Taylor, 1813
4
The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Laws of candy. ...
For Cæsar's frowns, they are below my thoughts ; And, but in these fair eyes I still have read The stqry of a supreme monarchy, 7 How durst thou, bting The scorn os baseness^ Mr. Sympson proposes a conjecture here, instead of the/corn of ...
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, James Shirley, 1778
5
An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by ...
J Baseness. Thou unconfinable baseness - Merry Wives of Windsor. — It is the baseness of thy fear, that makes thee strangle thy propriety Tte. Night. — And, by my body's action• teach my mind a most inherent baseness Coriolanns. — Fly ...
Samuel Ayscough, 1827
6
Gorgias: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native ...
POL.: I would. soc.: So then, do you think there is any baseness in soul too? Pol.: How could I not? soc.: Don't you call this injustice, lack of learning, cowardice, and such things? Pol.: Yes, certainly. 477c soc.: So then, of possessions and body ...
‎1998
7
Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
Oibdio. Baseness. Thou unconfinable baseness - Merry Wives of Winds r. •— It is the baseness of thy fear, that makes thee strangle thy propriety T-.u. Mii^bt — And , by my body's action, teach my mind a most inherent baseness Coriolar.us.
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, 1790
8
The dramatic works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: ...
J. N. 67 How durst thou, leing The scorn of baseness.] Mr. Sympson proposes a conjecture here; instead of the irern of baseness, he thinks it might have been the scum of baseness, i.e. The basest part of baseness itself. The thoBghl is ...
Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, George Colman, 1811
9
The Hedaya, Or Guide: a Commentary on the Mussulman Laws: ...
Now, as the baseness occasioned 'by an inva/idig' of right is of less moment than that occasioned by the absoliite non-existence of right, it follows that the baseness occasioned by the invalid-Ft)- in the right of property occasions a semblance ...
'Abu-l-Hasan Burhan-al-din 'Ali ibn 'Abi Bakr al-Marginani, Charles Hamilton, Yahya Gulam, 1791
10
An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by ...
'1 Baseness. Thou unconfinable baseness - Merry Wives of Windsor. 2 -— And, by my body's action, teach my mind a most inherent baseness Coriolanns. 3 —- Fly, damned baseness, to him that worships thee Timon of Athens. 3 — From ...
Samuel Ayscough, 1827

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BASENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term baseness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Art of Accounting: Advising Cheapskates
Accountants get unusual views of human frailty and baseness of character. Most of our interactions are stimulating and propel us to growth, but ... «Accounting Today, Jul 15»
2
Chris Walsh on the History of Cowardice
... "Well I'm doing a kind of trilogy of human baseness, and my next and last topic is cowardice" and I was a bit crestfallen to hear that because ... «Foreign Affairs, Jul 15»
3
The richest man
This is not a disquisition on the richest man in Pakistan, whomever that may be, nor is it the picayune task of exposing the baseness of the ... «Daily Times, Jul 15»
4
Michael Farren Disbarred From District of Columbia
Crimes of moral turpitude were defined by the court as being “baseness, vileness, or depravity” and thus require disbarment. He was found ... «JDJournal.com, Jul 15»
5
Former White House Lawyer Disbarred in DC
A crime of moral turpitude, according to the court, is one that reflects “baseness, vileness or depravity.” A jury in state court in Connecticut found ... «The National Law Journal, Jul 15»
6
Ex-slave praises … the founders!
But I differ from those who charge this baseness on the framers of the Constitution of the United States. It is a slander upon their memory, ... «WND.com, Jun 15»
7
'Appomattox' is thought-provoking
... courage or skill to the Yankees and saw them as unworthy foes, stressing Southern virtues and the baseness of the Union “hard war” tactics. «Bowling Green Daily News, Jun 15»
8
Cocaine possession not immoral – SC
Black's Law Dictionary defines it as “an offense or a crime that is illegal but also shows a person's baseness and depravity.” Baterina cited as ... «Philippine Star, Jun 15»
9
What Is Vulnerable Theology?
“Those who think the authority of the Word is dragged down by the baseness of the men called to teach it disclose their own ungratefulness. «Patheos, Jun 15»
10
A shattered justice system
... accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. «BusinessWorld Online Edition, Jun 15»

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