Meanings
- USslanguncountablesometimes considered vulgarThe quality or state of being badass.
You get a cold smackdown if you don't at least feign badassness and say you've smoked weed.
2014, Bill Landauer, We Are All Crew, page 382 more examples
She led her lady mateys to great riches, eventually becoming captain of yet another crew, this time of male pirates who were entranced by her beauty and devoted to her badassness.
2013, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings, page 18Produced by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo […] its tracks were more structured and cleaner than Magik Markers' earlier releases without watering down the band's innate badassness.
2022, JR Moores, Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, unnumbered pageSynonyms: badassery
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality or state of being badass.
Origin
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badassness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/badassness
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