An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
MEANNESS
meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
(noun) extreme stinginess
beastliness, meanness
(noun) the quality of being deliberately mean
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
meanness (countable and uncountable, plural meannesses)
(uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
(countable) A mean act.
Antonyms
• nobility
• nobleness
Source: Wiktionary
Mean"ness, n.
1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison.
2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. Goldsmith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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