VICIOUSNESS

ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery

(noun) the trait of extreme cruelty

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

viciousness (countable and uncountable, plural viciousnesses)

the characteristic of being vicious

Synonyms: viciosity, vitiosity

the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

12 May 2025

UNSEASONED

(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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