noun. The state or condition of being base or low in scale; meanness of grade; lowliness, as of birth or station.

noun. That which is base or low; anything of an ignoble grade or quality; meanness, as of relation or employment.

noun. Illegitimacy of birth; bastardy.

noun. The state or quality of being morally mean or vile; vileness; worthlessness.

noun. Of metals: Liability to rust: opposed to nobleness.

noun. Inferior or debased quality, the result of having been alloyed with a cheaper metal; spuriousness.

noun. Deepness of sound.

noun. The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

noun. The quality or condition of being base.

noun. The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.

noun. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

"III. i.14 (63,3) [For all the accommodations, that thou bear'st Are nurs'd by baseness] Dr. Warburton is undoubtedly mistaken in supposing that by _baseness_ is meant _self-love_ here assigned as the motive of all human actions."

honor  morality  

base  

unworthiness  

avarice  barbarity  coarseness  deceit  depravity  

abjectness  abominability  abominableness  amorality  arrantness