SPITEFULNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does spitefulness mean? • SPITEFULNESS (noun)
The noun SPITEFULNESS has 2 senses:
1. feeling a need to see others suffer
2. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Familiarity information: SPITEFULNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SPITEFULNESS (noun)
Meaning:
Feeling a need to see others suffer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
spitefulness; spite; maliciousness; malice; venom
Hypernyms ("spitefulness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malignity (wishing evil to others)
Meaning:
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bitchiness; cattiness; nastiness; spite; spitefulness
Hypernyms ("spitefulness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)
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