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MALICIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does maliciousness mean?
• MALICIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun MALICIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. feeling a need to see others suffer
Familiarity information: MALICIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling a need to see others suffer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
malice; maliciousness; spite; spitefulness; venom
Hypernyms ("maliciousness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malignity (wishing evil to others)
Derivation:
malicious (having the nature of or resulting from malice)
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