violence

1. 1.

   an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

   “he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one”

   Synonymsforce

   Broaderaggression

   Narrowerdomestic violenceroad rageriot
2. 2.

   the property of being wild or turbulent

   “the storm's violence”

   Synonymsferocityfiercenessfuriousnessfuryvehemencewildness

   Broaderintensity

   Narrowersavageness
3. 3.

   a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

   Broaderturbulence

   Narrowerrage

Other forms of violence

plural

violences·

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 violence

What does violence mean?

violence means "an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in violence?

violence has 3 syllables: vi-o-lence. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /ˈvaɪələns/.

What is another word for violence?

Close synonyms include force, ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury. 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 violence a common word?

violence is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with violence?

1 word rhymes with violence. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.