maliciousness

Questions about maliciousness

What does maliciousness mean?

maliciousness means "feeling a need to see others suffer".

How many syllables are in maliciousness?

maliciousness has 5 syllables and divides as ma-li-ci-ou-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for maliciousness?

Close synonyms include malice, spite, spitefulness, venom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is maliciousness a common word?

maliciousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.