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I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.
Bruce Robinson

Meaning of "vengefulness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VENGEFULNESS

vengefulness  [ˈvendʒfʊlnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VENGEFULNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vengefulness 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 VENGEFULNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

vengefulness

Revenge

Revenge is a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. It is also called payback, retribution, retaliation or vengeance; it may be characterized as a form of justice, an altruistic action which enforces societal or moral justice aside from the legal system. Francis Bacon described it as a kind of "wild justice" that "does... offend the law putteth the law out of office".

Definition of vengefulness in the English dictionary

The first definition of vengefulness in the dictionary is the quality or state of desiring revenge; vindictiveness. Other definition of vengefulness is the quality or state of being characterized by or indicating a desire for revenge. Vengefulness is also the quality or state of inflicting or taking revenge.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VENGEFULNESS


beautifulness
ˈbjuːtɪfʊlnəs
changefulness
ˈtʃeɪndʒfʊlnəs
eventfulness
ɪˈvɛntfʊlnəs
harmfulness
ˈhɑːmfʊlnəs
hatefulness
ˈheɪtfʊlnəs
healthfulness
ˈhɛlθfʊlnəs
meaningfulness
ˈmiːnɪŋfʊlnəs
needfulness
ˈniːdfʊlnəs
powerfulness
ˈpaʊəfʊlnəs
restfulness
ˈrɛstfʊlnəs
revengefulness
rɪˈvɛndʒfʊlnəs
soulfulness
ˈsəʊlfʊlnəs
successfulness
səkˈsɛsfʊlnəs
trustfulness
ˈtrʌstfʊlnəs
ungratefulness
ʌnˈɡreɪtfʊlnəs
unlawfulness
ʌnˈlɔːfʊlnəs
willfulness
ˈwɪlfʊlnəs
wishfulness
ˈwɪʃfʊlnəs
wonderfulness
ˈwʌndəfʊlnəs
wrongfulness
ˈrɒŋfʊlnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VENGEFULNESS

venge
vengeable
vengeably
vengeance
vengeful
vengefully
vengement
venger
venial
venial sin
veniality
venially
venialness
Venice
venidium
venin
venipuncture
venire
venire facias

WORDS THAT END LIKE VENGEFULNESS

business
carefulness
coolness
evilness
faithfulness
forgetfulness
fruitfulness
fullness
gracefulness
helpfulness
illness
joyfulness
mental illness
mindfulness
stillness
thankfulness
thoughtfulness
truthfulness
usefulness
wastefulness
wellness

Synonyms and antonyms of vengefulness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «vengefulness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VENGEFULNESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

vengefulness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

venganza
570 millions of speakers

English

vengefulness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

vengefulness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرغبة في الانتقام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мстительность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vengefulness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

vengefulness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vengeance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengabaian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rachsucht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

復讐心
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

vengefulness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vengefulness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trả thù
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பழிவாங்கும் குணத்தைத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिशोध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vengefulness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vendetta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mściwość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мстивість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

răzbunare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκδικητικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wraak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hämndlystnad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vengefulness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vengefulness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VENGEFULNESS»

The term «vengefulness» is normally little used and occupies the 138.049 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VENGEFULNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «vengefulness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «vengefulness» 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 vengefulness

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QUOTES WITH «VENGEFULNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word vengefulness.
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Bruce Robinson
I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VENGEFULNESS»

Discover the use of vengefulness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vengefulness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reduction of Vengefulness and Enhancement of ...
An applied research project in forgiveness, vengeance, and interpersonal hostility was conducted with incarcerated males (N = 27) who were assigned to either a treatment group designed to promote forgiveness or a wait-list comparison group.
Mary C. Lazarus, 2007
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Victimhood, Vengefulness, and the Culture of Forgiveness
By writing this book the authors try to make these concepts acknowledged, understood dynamically and accepted emphatically.
Ivan Urlic, Miriam E. Berger, Avi Berman, 2010
3
Collected Papers on Schizophrenia and Related Subjects
Chapter 5 THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF VENGEFULNESS (1956)1 IN psychiatric and psycho-analytic literature, vengefulness is customarily described merely as one form of hostility. Only in occasional papers is it noted that the striving for ...
Harold F. Searles, 2012
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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in ...
generation with new agents following the strategy captured by the boldness and vengefulness values of those agents that are one standard deviation or more above the mean. Thus, poorly performing agents are replaced by those that perform ...
Stephen Cranefield, M. Birna Riemsdijk, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, 2012
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The Psychology of Feeling Sorry: The Weight of the Soul
Presumably, the increasing years of experience of such circumstances provide reinforcement for such traits among drivers who are predisposed to vengefulness . In general terms, however, feelings of vengefulness in respect of conflicted ...
Peter Randall, 2013
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Emotion, Social Theory, and Social Structure: A ...
These last remarks indicate how resentment readily reinforces vengefulness, and also suggests how vengefulness may almost always be experienced together with resentment, even though situations in which resentment arises do not ...
J. M. Barbalet, 2001
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Logic, Systems and Psyche: A Discourse on Method
This is his foundation for the term metanorm. The game run, with this added metanorm, thus makes a critical second evaluation about a player's vengefulness against a nonpunishing agent, making it count as much as an agent's vengefulness ...
Dwight O. McCan, 2006
8
Nietzsche's Voice
Whereas in the first essay we are told that the nobles can indulge their sudden impulses of rage and vengefulness in an "immediate reaction" and therefore are not poisoned by repressed instinct (I, 10;39), in the second essay vengefulness as ...
Henry Staten, 1990
9
New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint JSAI 2001 ...
Results of 10 runs of the maintenance of the norm in the norms game with mutual choice: average boldness and vengefulness of all players in 10000 generations under the initial condition Vi = 1 and Bi = 0 (∀i ∈ N). Fig. 20.3. Example of the ...
Takao Terano, Jinkō Chinō Gakkai, 2001
10
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling
In the cheating scenario, the relevant attributes are: Boldness The likelihood that an individual cheats Vengefulness The likelihood that an individual reports a cheater The players interact by playing two games, called “cheat-or-not” and ...
Allen Downey, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VENGEFULNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vengefulness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Western author Wallace Stegner praised character of Mormon women
In his introduction for the book, which was published by the University of Nebraska in 1981, he also notes their “human cussedness, vengefulness, masochism, ... «Deseret News, Jul 15»
2
Looking for peace? Don't ask Steve Smith
... still seeking that voice that will bring closure — a transcendent moment that will move us forward in resolve to put anger and bias and vengefulness behind us. «Chattanooga Times Free Press, Jul 15»
3
Holly Madison's Book Slammed By Izabella St James; Former …
"We have seen her do some extremely humiliating things sexually and I think part of her bitterness and humiliation and vengefulness comes from that. It was very ... «KpopStarz, Jul 15»
4
Donald Trump and the Angry GOP
They tolerate his meanness, boastfulness and vengefulness against those who have crossed him. And they believe his fantastical claims, like that he can build ... «Politico, Jul 15»
5
Clamour to hang Shafqat Hussain reflects vengeful mood in …
Since then, in a knee-jerk reaction and burst of vengefulness, Pakistan has already executed 48 prisoners, nearly half of them in just two days; 12 were hanged ... «Scroll.in, Mar 15»
6
'Vengeful' Edmonton man pleads guilty to hit and run gets one year …
Defence lawyer Darin Sprake conceded Hill made "incredibly poor and illegal choices" which he said were "fuelled by alcohol and his anger and vengefulness.". «Edmonton Sun, Jan 15»
7
Listen to Faithful Muslims, They Mean What They Say
Europe and Obama may try to deflect Islamic vengefulness away from them by blaming Israel for everything, but, unfortunately for them, the Muslim faithful won't ... «Israel Today, Nov 14»
8
Wildness and vengefulness bring jarring Playboy to life
But the production comes satisfactorily alive in the last act, with wildness and vengefulness well to the fore from Bob Kelly's Christy and O'Malley's Pegeen, with ... «Irish Independent, Oct 14»
9
Characteristics Of The Stalker: Know What To Look For
Do you think violence and vengefulness? Do you think fear on the part of the stalker? Do you think about the stalker's lack of communication skills or even ... «PsychCentral.com, Sep 14»
10
Is vengefulness driving American foreign policy attitudes?
The botched execution two weeks ago of an Oklahoma death-row inmate has reinvigorated the debate over capital punishment. And though the death penalty ... «Washington Post, May 14»

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