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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Baseness \Base"ness\, noun The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
baseness
noun: unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values [syn: {contemptibility}, {despicableness}, {despicability}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "baseness": abjectness, abominability, abominableness, arrantness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, brutality, chicanery, coarseness, commonness, commonplaceness, contemptibility, contemptibleness, contrariety, cravenness, crudeness, crumminess, dastardliness, debasement, deficiency, degradation, depravity, desertion under fire, despicability, despicableness, detestableness, devilishness, devilry, deviltry, direness, disgustingness, dreadfulness, egregiousness, enormity, evilness, execrableness, failure, fewness, fiendishness, filth, flagitiousness, foulness, fourth-rateness, fulsomeness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, hellishness, helotism, helotry, homeliness, horribleness, humbleness, ignobility, imperfection, inadequacy, incompetence, infamousness, inferiority, inferiorness, iniquitousness, insufficiency, knavery, knavishness, littleness, loathsomeness, lousiness, lowliness, lowness, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, menialness, miserableness, monstrousness, moral turpitude, nastiness, naughtiness, nauseousness, nefariousness, noisomeness, notoriousness, noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, obscenity, odiousness, offensiveness, ordinariness, outrageousness, paltriness, peonage, pettiness, plebeianism, pokiness, poltroonery, poltroonishness, poltroonism, poorness, pusillanimity, pusillanimousness, putridity, putridness, rankness, rascality, rascalry, rebarbativeness, repellence, repellency, reprobacy, repugnance, repulsiveness, roguery, roguishness, rottenness, scabbiness, scampishness, scandalousness, scoundrelism, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scumminess, scurviness, second-rateness, serfdom, servility, shabbiness, shamefulness, shoddiness, sinfulness, skedaddling, slavery, slavishness, smallness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, submissiveness, subnormality, subservience, subserviency, terribleness, the pits, third-rateness, triviality, turpitude, uncleanness, unskillfulness, unspeakableness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, vulgarity, wickedness, worthlessness, wretchedness
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