different between shitty vs shittiness

English

From shit +? -y.

shitty (comparative shittier, superlative shittiest)

(vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.
The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.
I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.
- 1988 November, Byron Coley, Underground, Spin, page 101,
  It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.
- 2006, Everett True, Nirvana: The True Story, 2009, unnumbered page,
  The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.
- 2011, Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires, page 134,
  Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.
(US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.
(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.
Don't get shitty at me!
(vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces); feculent.
(informal, vulgar) Of low quality or standard; inferior; not up to par, or failing one's expectations
- 2005, Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep: A Novel - Page 157:
  “She's a shitty teacher, but Ault was in a bind.” But she hadn't been a shitty teacher when she'd been hired. She'd never taught before. And who was Aspeth to decide she was shitty now? She was still inexperienced.

shitty +? -ness

shittiness (uncountable)

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