baseness

Meaning

1. The quality or condition of being base.
2. The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.

Etymology / origin

Etymology tree Late Latin bassus Old French basbor. Middle English bas English base Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English baseness From base + -ness.

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