Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being vengeful
The vengefulness of the king was legendary.
1 more example
To this day his reason has never recovered from that shock; a wild nightmare of vengefulness has possessed him ever since, and he has almost bankrupted his native ingenuities in inventing pains and miseries and humiliations and heartbreaks wherewith to embitter the brief lives of Adam's descendants.
c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VI
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Dutch wraakzucht
- wraakzuchtstate or quality of being vengeful
Portuguese vingatividade
- vingatividadestate or quality of being vengeful
Thai ความอาฆาต, ความพยาบาท
- ความอาฆาต (kwaam-aa-kâat)state or quality of being vengeful
- ความพยาบาทstate or quality of being vengeful
Turkish intikamcılık
- intikamcılıkstate or quality of being vengeful
Cite this entry
vengefulness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vengefulness
“vengefulness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vengefulness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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