vengefulness
noun
vengefulness is a noun meaning “The state or quality of being vengeful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-G-E-F-U-L-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vengefulness mean?
noun
- 1
The state or quality of being vengeful
The vengefulness of the king was legendary.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vengefulness?
Vengefulness appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Vengefulness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state or quality of being vengeful:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | vingatividade |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vengefulness come from?
From vengeful + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).