MALICIOUSNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling a need to see others suffer

Synonyms:

malice; maliciousness; spite; spitefulness; venom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("maliciousness" is a kind of...):

malevolence; malignity (wishing evil to others)

Derivation:

malicious (having the nature of or resulting from malice)

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