Venom vs Venomosity - What's the difference?
venom | venomosity |
A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter.
* Milton
(figuratively) Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice.
* Shakespeare
To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
poison, venom
As nouns the difference between venom and venomosity
is that venom is a poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter while venomosity is the quality of being venomous.As a verb venom
is to infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.venom
English
Noun
(wikipedia venom) (en noun)- Hurtful worm with cankered venom bites.
- the venom of such looks
Derived terms
* nonvenomous * venomousVerb
(en verb)- Venomed vengeance. — Shakespeare.