Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Depravity; viciousness; vice; lack of purity, as of language or style. Also spelled
vitiosity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Vitiosity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
viciousness
Etymologies
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From vitiosity under influence of vicious, both of which derive ultimately from Latin vitiōsus.
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Examples
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After 6 day war there was an organized government anti-semitic campaign in Soviet Union, too, and I remember it quite well, but it never achieved the level of viciosity which such campaign took in Poland.
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I have suffered this malignant viciosity for two-dozen-plus years.
Furiouser and furiouser . . . Judith Fitzgerald 2008
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I have suffered this malignant viciosity for two-dozen-plus years.
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I have suffered this malignant viciosity for two-dozen-plus years.
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I have suffered this malignant viciosity for two-dozen-plus years.
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