virulence, virulency
(noun) extreme hostility; “the virulence of the malicious old man”
virulence, virulency
(noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); “the virulence of the plague”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
virulence (countable and uncountable, plural virulences)
The state of being virulent.
A measure of how virulent a thing is.
Source: Wiktionary
Vir"u*lence, Vir"u*len*cy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. virulence, L. virulentia an offensive odor, a stench.]
1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.
2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities of the other. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
