| NOUN | feeling | malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom | feeling a need to see others suffer |
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| attribute | malice, malevolence, malevolency | the quality of threatening evil |
| Sounds | mae'lahs; mae'lihs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| abyss ... worthiness: 194 rhymes with ihs... | ||
| Meaning | Feeling a need to see others suffer. | |
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| Synonyms | maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom | |
| Broader | malevolence, malignity | wishing evil to others |
| Spanish | despecho, insidia, malicia | |
| Catalan | despit, insídia, maldat, malícia, malignitat | |
| Adjectives | malicious | having the nature of or resulting from malice |
| Meaning | The quality of threatening evil. | |
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| Synonyms | malevolence, malevolency | |
| Narrower | beastliness, meanness | The quality of being deliberately mean / mean |
| cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | |
| cruelty, cruelness, harshness | The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | |
| Broader | evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
| Spanish | malevolencia, malicia | |
| Catalan | malevolència, malícia, malvolença | |
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