Dictionary

viciousness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The characteristic of being vicious.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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 status quo. So I didn’t expect it to be easy. I think some of the distractions and some of the ferocity was — I was a little blindsided by on a personal level,” she said. 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:

Forms

Synonyms

viciosity · vitiosity

Translations (9)

eo maliceco (the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty) · cmn 邪恶 (the characteristic of being vicious) · cmn 险恶 (the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty) · eo brutaleco (the characteristic of being vicious) · io viciozeso (the characteristic of being vicious) · bg порочност (the characteristic of being vicious) · cmn 不道德 (the characteristic of being vicious) · es saña (the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty) · cmn 恶意 (the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty)