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Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]

Quality of being customary.

Acuteness; cunning. [Colloq.]

The quality of being cynical.

The quality of being daft.

Daily occurence. [R.]

The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. The daintiness and niceness of our captains Hakluyt. More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and…

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. Prynne.

Tendency to bring damnation. "The damningness of them [sins]." Hammond.

Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2.

The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.

Dastardliness.

The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.

The title of the wife of the dauphin.

A female deacon; as:

The quality of being deadly.

The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.…

Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.