different between meanness vs meanless

English

Etymology

mean +? -ness

Noun

meanness (countable and uncountable, plural meannesses)

1. (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)

   This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison

2. (countable) A mean act.
   • 1908, The World's Work (volume 16, page 10497)

     There are enough meannesses in everyone — ourselves included — to make for us a contemptible world, if we select the meannesses and let our minds dwell upon them.

Antonyms

• nobility
• nobleness

Translations

References

• meanness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From mean +? -less.

Adjective

meanless (comparative more meanless, superlative most meanless)

1. (archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.
2. (not comparable, mathematics) Having no (mathematical) mean, or having a mean of zero.
   • 1990, in Experimental Robotics I: The First International Symposium Montreal,^[3], Springer-Verlag, ?ISBN, page 208:

     […] is stopped (${\displaystyle n_{k}=0}$) if either the estimation error is within a "dead zone" (${\displaystyle \left|c_{k}\right|\leq \left|\delta _{kp}\right|}$), or the arrival data are meanless (${\displaystyle \gamma _{k}=0}$).

   • 1994, M.R. Schroeder, “How to generate Thermal Photons – On the Computer”, in Gérard G. Emch et al. (editors), On Klauder’s Path: A Field Trip, World Scientific Publishing Co., ?ISBN, page 199:

     Another unfailing “mean” to characterize such meanless distributions is the logarithmic mean […]

   • 2004, in La Rivista del Nuovo cimento,^[4] Società italiana di fisica, page 35:

     In particular: i) the average is used to get a meanless dataset, as specified in sect. 20; […]

Anagrams

• Sleemans, lameness, maleness, maneless, nameless, salesmen