Home › Words › S › scathingnessscathingnessscathingness means the quality of being scathing.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, scathingness ranks #2,165 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom scathing + -ness.nounThe quality of being scathing.e.g.“For all his scathingness, and despite his unremitting intellect, Mr. Joyce was a romantic when it came to women.” — 2003, Jefferey Simons, Silverpowdered olivetrees: reading Joyce in Spain:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).