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hatefulness

hatefulness noun: the characteristic of being hateful.

Noun

hatefulness (countable and uncountable, plural hatefulnesses)

  1. The characteristic of being hateful.
    • Willie spends his bus money home playing a song to dance to on the jukebox in an effort to comfort Sam, and unlike Hally, who struck out at his old friend when his life began to go wrong, Sam does not pass down Hally's hatefulness, but instead treats Willie with the same gentleness he has shown...1983 December 3, Andrea Loewenstein, “Racism Denounced in a Powerful Play”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 20

hatefulness meaning in Kannada

hatefulness in Kannada

ಹಗೆ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸುವಂತಹ ಲಕ್ಷಣ, ದ್ವೇಷಪ್ರಚೋದಕತ, ವೈರ ಕೆರಳಿಸುವಂತಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಅಸಹ್ಯತೆ, ಅಪ್ರೀತಿಕರತೆ, ಜುಗುಪ್ಸಾವಹತೆ

Forms of hatefulness

pluralhatefulnesses

Origin of hatefulness

From hateful + -ness.

Questions about hatefulness

What does hatefulness mean?
Hatefulness means the characteristic of being hateful.
What is hatefulness in Kannada?
Hatefulness in Kannada is ಹಗೆ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸುವಂತಹ ಲಕ್ಷಣ, ದ್ವೇಷಪ್ರಚೋದಕತ, ವೈರ ಕೆರಳಿಸುವಂತಿರುವಿಕೆ. See Hatefulness meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is hatefulness?
Hatefulness is a noun.
What is the plural of hatefulness?
The plural of hatefulness is hatefulnesses.

Words near hatefulness in the dictionary

  1. hateful
  2. hatefull
  3. hatefuller
  4. hatefullest
  5. hatefully
  6. hatefulness
  7. hatefulnesses
  8. hatelang
  9. hatelangs
  10. hateless
  11. hatelessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hatefulness (page history and authors); hatefulness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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