Usually means: Mediocrity, inferior quality or status.
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  1. second-rateness: Merriam-Webster
  2. second-rateness: Dictionary.com
  3. second-rateness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. second-rateness: Legal dictionary

(Note: See second-rate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (second-rate)

adjective:  (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.
adjective:  (idiomatic) Of mediocre quality; not first-rate.
noun:  (UK, military, nautical, historical) A second-rate ship of the line.
▸ Also see second-rate


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