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viciousness

viciousness noun: the characteristic of being vicious.

Noun

viciousness (countable and uncountable, plural viciousnesses)

  1. The characteristic of being vicious.
    Synonyms:
    viciosity, vitiosity
  2. The desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty.
    • “It is hard. And there is a level of viciousness that I was not expecting. I was not expecting the intensity of this experience, but this isn’t supposed to be easy. My father and this administration intends to be transformative, and we want to do big, bold things and we’re looking to change the...2017 June 12, Betsy Klein, quoting Ivanka Trump, “Ivanka Trump: ‘There is a level of viciousness that I was not expecting’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2017

viciousness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

viciousness in Tamil

முரட்டுத்தன்மை

viciousness in Urdu

بدی, خباثت

viciousness in Kannada

viciousness, savageness, meanness
ಅಗಡು agaḍu

Synonyms of viciousness

Forms of viciousness

pluralviciousnesses

Origin of viciousness

From Middle English viciousnesse; equivalent to vicious + -ness.

Questions about viciousness

What does viciousness mean?
Viciousness means the characteristic of being vicious.
What is viciousness in Tamil?
Viciousness in Tamil is முரட்டுத்தன்மை. See Viciousness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is viciousness?
Viciousness is a noun.
What is the plural of viciousness?
The plural of viciousness is viciousnesses.

Words near viciousness in the dictionary

  1. vicious intromission
  2. vicious intromissions
  3. viciouser
  4. viciousest
  5. viciously
  6. viciousness
  7. viciousnesses
  8. vicissities
  9. vicissitous
  10. vicissitude
  11. vicissitudes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: viciousness (page history and authors); viciousness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); viciousness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಅಗಡು (Kannada) (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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