What is another word for baseness?

Pronunciation: [bˈe͡ɪsnəs] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "baseness", each with its own specific connotations and nuances. For example, "vileness" suggests a repugnant character or spirit, while "depravity" connotes moral corruption and wickedness. "Dishonor" implies a loss of reputation or respectability, while "meanness" refers to a low or unworthy quality or behavior. "Ignominy" suggests a shameful or humiliating disgrace, while "abjectness" implies a state of extreme servitude or degradation. Ultimately, the choice of synonym depends on the intended tone and context of the sentence or passage.

Synonyms for Baseness:

What are the hypernyms for Baseness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Baseness?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for baseness (as nouns)

    • attribute
      unworthiness.

What are the opposite words for baseness?

Baseness refers to a lack of principles, morality or decency. In stark contrast, the antonyms for baseness include words such as nobility, honor, integrity, honesty, righteousness, and decency. These qualities reflect positive character traits such as respectability, honorability, and uprightness. People with these characteristics are often seen as noble and trustworthy. Nobility implies the presence of high moral principles and noblesse oblige. Honesty indicates a truthful and genuine nature, while integrity embodies adherence to moral and ethical principles. Righteousness refers to virtuous conduct and uprightness signifies a refusal to compromise one's values. These antonyms for baseness reflect the traits that society considers admirable and they are qualities we should all strive to embody.

What are the antonyms for Baseness?

Usage examples for Baseness

Can't you perceive that when a man will descend to such baseness to obtain money, there is no measuring the depth he will go to when pressed to pay it?
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Rascals imposed upon her, and amused themselves in sending her on fruitless missions, and would even give her directions whose baseness she could not suspect.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
What do you think of this baseness, reverend sir?
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth

Famous quotes with Baseness

  • I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
    Georg Brandes
  • 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.
    George Gissing
  • Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
    Milan Kundera
  • In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
    James Russell Lowell
  • Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
    Bryant H. McGill

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