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Atrocity vs Vicious - What's the difference?

atrocity | vicious |

As a noun atrocity

is  The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.

As an adjective vicious is

pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

atrocity

English

(wikipedia atrocity)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
  • (countable) An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
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    • Related terms

    * atrocious

    See also

    * heinousness * criminality * brutality

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    vicious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
  • *:We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious .
  • Evil, immoral or depraved.
  • Violent, destructive and cruel.
  • Savage and aggressive.
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    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * vicious circle

    Related terms

    * vice * vitiate