vengefulness

English

Etymology

From vengeful +‎ -ness.

Noun

vengefulness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being vengeful
    The vengefulness of the king was legendary.
    • c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VI:
      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.

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