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mischievousness

Syllables: mis·chie·vous·ness/ˈmɪst͡ʃɪvəsnəs/

mischievousness noun: the characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief.

Noun

mischievousness (countable and uncountable, plural mischievousnesses)

  1. The characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief.
    • Up to the recent accident, which is attributed to the mischievousness of someone in releasing safety devices on the wagon, the railway has enjoyed an accident-free record.1946 November and December, “Notes and News: An American Mountain Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 382

mischievousness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

mischievousness in Tamil

characteristic of being mischievous
லொள்ளு loḷḷu

mischievousness in Urdu

mischievousness, mischief; naughtiness
شرارت śarārat

mischievousness in Kannada

ಕಿಳ್ಳಿ

Forms of mischievousness

pluralmischievousnesses

Origin of mischievousness

From mischievous + -ness.

Questions about mischievousness

What does mischievousness mean?
Mischievousness means the characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief.
What is mischievousness in Tamil?
Mischievousness in Tamil is லொள்ளு (loḷḷu). See Mischievousness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mischievousness?
Mischievousness is a noun.
How do you pronounce mischievousness?
Mischievousness is pronounced /ˈmɪst͡ʃɪvəsnəs/.
What is the plural of mischievousness?
The plural of mischievousness is mischievousnesses.

Words near mischievousness in the dictionary

  1. mischieves
  2. mischieving
  3. mischievious
  4. mischievous
  5. mischievously
  6. mischievousness
  7. mischievousnesses
  8. Mischii
  9. mischio
  10. mischivous
  11. Mischke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mischievousness (page history and authors); شرارت (Urdu) (page history and authors); mischievousness (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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