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English
Etymology
From vindictive + -ness.
Noun
vindictiveness (usually uncountable, plural vindictivenesses)
- The condition of being vindictive; a malevolent desire for revenge.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 326:Lord Avonleigh was an angry rather than a vindictive man. Vindictiveness requires more energy of character than he possessed. Indeed, it may be questioned whether he would of himself have taken the violent measures of the preceding evening.
Translations
a malevolent desire for revenge