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Meaning of "devilishness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEVILISHNESS

devilishness  [ˈdɛvlɪʃnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEVILISHNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Devilishness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEVILISHNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of devilishness in the English dictionary

The definition of devilishness in the dictionary is the quality of being cruel or unpleasant. Other definition of devilishness is difficulty.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEVILISHNESS


boorishness
ˈbʊərɪʃnɪs
Britishness
ˈbrɪtɪʃnɪs
childishness
ˈtʃaɪldɪʃnɪs
churlishness
ˈtʃɜːlɪʃnɪs
feverishness
ˈfiːvərɪʃnɪs
foolishness
ˈfuːlɪʃnɪs
foppishness
ˈfɒpɪʃnɪs
garishness
ˈɡɛərɪʃnɪs
ghoulishness
ˈɡuːlɪʃnɪs
lavishness
ˈlævɪʃnɪs
mulishness
ˈmjuːlɪʃnɪs
offishness
ˈɒfɪʃnɪs
prudishness
ˈpruːdɪʃnɪs
selfishness
ˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs
sluggishness
ˈslʌɡɪʃnɪs
snappishness
ˈsnæpɪʃnɪs
snobbishness
ˈsnɒbɪʃnɪs
squeamishness
ˈskwiːmɪʃnɪs
stylishness
ˈstaɪlɪʃnɪs
unselfishness
ʌnˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEVILISHNESS

devil´s coach-horse
devil´s darning needle
devil´s food cake
Devil´s Island
devildom
deviless
devilet
devilfish
devilish
devilishly
devilism
devilkin
devilled
devilling
devilment
devilries
devilry
devils-on-horseback
devilship
deviltries

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEVILISHNESS

brashness
bullishness
business
Caithness
Englishness
freshness
greenishness
harshness
highness
Jewishness
lushness
much of a muchness
muchness
rashness
richness
roughness
Royal Highness
smoothness
suchness
thoroughness
toughness

Synonyms and antonyms of devilishness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «devilishness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEVILISHNESS

Find out the translation of devilishness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of devilishness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «devilishness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

devilishness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

diabólico
570 millions of speakers

English

devilishness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

devilishness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشيطانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

злобу
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

devilishness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পৈশাচিকতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

diablerie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Devilishness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Teuflische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

魔性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

devilishness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Devilishness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

devilishness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

devilishness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अशुभपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

devilishness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

devilishness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szatańskości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

злобу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

devilishness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

devilishness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

devilishness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

devilishness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

devilishness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of devilishness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVILISHNESS»

The term «devilishness» is used very little and occupies the 172.236 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVILISHNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «devilishness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «devilishness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about devilishness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVILISHNESS»

Discover the use of devilishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to devilishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kant's Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will
4. Devilishness. as. an. Actual. Mode. of. Freedom. Reared in the tradition of pietism and educated in the philosophy of the Enlightenment, Kant could not envisage a personality like Hitler just as he could not have imagined a regime of such ...
John Silber, 2012
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Kant's Theory of Evil: An Essay on the Dangers of Self-love ...
Devilishness implies an agent who is free and nonetheless has an "absolutely evil Wille" (schlechthin boser Wille), a "malignant reason." By its very nature, such an agent neglects the moral law and organizes conduct around the incentive of ...
Pablo Muchnik, 2009
3
Fallen Freedom: Kant on Radical Evil and Moral Regeneration
Kant' s rejection of devilishness is thus the condition of the possibility of moral regeneration. However slim this possibility may be in a given case, and however murky the actual process, the capacity to experience moral obligation guarantees  ...
Gordon E. Michalson, 1990
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The works of ... John Scott. To which is added, a sermon ...
consists of two things ; first, of sensuality, and secondly, of devilishness. By sensuality, I mean an immoderate propension of the soul to the pleasures of the body ; such an headstrong propension as wholly diverts the soul from all her nobler ...
John Scott, 1826
5
Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque
I would suggest that an answer is to be found by examining a major problem that remains in the approach of Hawkes and of others who discuss O'Connor's devilishness. None of these critics define clearly what they mean by the term " devil.
Marshall Bruce Gentry
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The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., ...
consists of two things ; first, of sensuality, and secondly, of devilishness. By sensuality, I mean an immoderate propension of the soul to the pleasures of the body ; such an headstrong propension as wholly diverts the soul from all her nobler ...
John Scott, 1826
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Glossator 8: Practice and Theory of the Commentary
[Kaiser/Wilkins] It is possible to know of the devilish but not to believe in it, because there is no more devilishness than exists anyway. [Hofmann] COMMENTARY One can only believe in what is beyond our experience. This would be a ...
Michael Cisco, Thomas Day, Ian Heames, 2013
8
The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of ...
[27] It may be fair to generalize and suggest that Indian devilishness has been associated more with wildness, and Jewish devilishness more with a maliciously knowing cynicism. Yet it is also well to recall that in Spain, as elsewhere in ...
Jonathan Boyarin, 2010
9
Magic For Marigold (Extended Annotated Edition)
devilishness. She hurled herself against Marigold. She pulled Marigold's hair and she slapped Marigold's face. Marigold had never been so manhandled in her life. She, Marigold Lesley. She struck out blindly and found Varvara's nose.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1929
10
Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity
When Pacific Christians use these tropes of darkness and light, it is thus tempting to see this as a terrible persistence of the negativity of devilishness and blackness that white missionaries imputed. Is this merely a case of the " subalterns being ...
Peter van der Veer, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEVILISHNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term devilishness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
East Neuk Festival finishes with flourish of French horns
And there was a devilishness, too, in the pair's closing item, Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen's virtuoso reworking of a Handel ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
2
Concert review: Kenny Wheeler Trio in the NAC Studio
In Your Own Sweet Way had its own metrical devilishness too, one-upping the kind of tricks that Brubeck helped pioneer in jazz. For Werner's ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jun 15»
3
Judd Apatow: Comedy drawn from an 'Unfair Life'
It was the twinkle in Sandler's eyes that haunted Apatow; the delight he took in his own devilishness. Apatow is still trying to find it. Elaine Margolin is a frequent ... «Jewish Journal, Jun 15»
4
'Calendar Girls' is both a fun and touching romp
Portraying, with a good bit of devilishness, the other club members who pose for the calendar are Corinne Gelfan, Diane Dean-Epps, Kristine ... «The Union of Grass Valley, May 15»
5
'Stranger Than Truth' With Timmy Williams: An Interview With Batman
I imagine he has no time for hygiene while determining his dastardly deeds of devilishness. Wow, you're on fire! Fire? What? Where? No it was ... «Tech Times, May 15»
6
REVIEW: The Actor's Wheel - Faustus: "Dark and devilish physical …
The costumes capture the elements of the fair but had a dark, devilishness to them. The addition of live snippets of music played by the people ... «Plymouth Herald, May 15»
7
Review: 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Is a Madly Entertaining High-Speed …
While very similar to its predecessors in almost every way, the film has devilishness in its details: the tribal-style makeup, the endlessly ... «Yahoo News, May 15»
8
Nawazuddin Siddiqui Shines in Shlok Sharma's 'Haraamkhor' at …
... in all his manipulative and exploitative creepy ways; or is it Mintu, whose childish devilishness is both endearing and somewhat troublesome; ... «India.com, May 15»
9
DERBY WEEK -- PART II Say it ain't so, Mo: Johnston, playing for …
"The thing for me was a little bit of devilishness on top of my terms," Johnston said during an interview when he was Red Bulls coach in 2006. «Big Apple Soccer, May 15»
10
Jack Black Juggles His Golden Nuggets Of Comedy
Since breaking through to stardom in the 2000 comedy “High Fidelity,” he has channeled his unique brand of likable devilishness and his flair ... «Neviewpoint, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Devilishness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/devilishness>. Apr 2024 ».
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