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Vengeance vs Vengefulness - What's the difference?

vengeance | vengefulness |

As nouns the difference between vengeance and vengefulness

is that vengeance is revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong while vengefulness is the state or quality of being vengeful.

vengeance

English

Alternative forms

* vengeaunce

Noun

  • Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
  • * 2000 , (Gladiator) (film):
    • My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance , in this life or the next.
  • Desire for revenge.
  • * (Charles Dickens), (Little Dorrit) :
    • Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance , she forms
  • * 2008 , Jean Harvey Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (ISBN 0393075680):
    • If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance
  • * 2011 , James Calloway, Black America, Not in This America (ISBN 1462868576):
    • Are they full of vengeance'[?], because they say that people with ' vengeance in their hearts must dig two graves, one for their enemy and the other for themselves.

    Synonyms

    * reprisal * retaliation * retribution * revenge * wreak * See also

    Antonyms

    * reconciliation

    vengefulness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being vengeful
  • :The vengefulness of the king was legendary.

    • Related terms

    *vengefully *vengeful