spitefulness

Other forms of spitefulness

plural

spitefulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spitefulness

What does spitefulness mean?

spitefulness means "feeling a need to see others suffer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spitefulness?

spitefulness has 4 syllables: spi-te-ful-ness. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for spitefulness?

Close synonyms include malice, maliciousness, spite, venom, cattiness. 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 spitefulness a common word?

spitefulness 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.