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Definition: Heinousness |
HeinousnessNoun1. The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heinousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonyms: HeinousnessSynonyms: atrociousness (n), atrocity (n), barbarity (n), barbarousness (n). (additional references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Man being born, as has been proved, with a title to perfect freedom, and an uncontrouled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature, equally with any other man, or number of men in the world, hath by nature a power, not only to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men; but to judge of, and punish the breaches of that law in others, as he is persuaded the offence deserves, even with death itself, in crimes where the heinousness of the fact, in his opinion, requires it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| "Heinousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heinousness" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "heinousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abscheulichkeit (abomination, atrociousness, atrocity, bloodiness, detestableness, devilishness, hellishness, hideousness, horribleness, infamy, loathsomeness, monstrosity, nastiness, repulsiveness, vileness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μυσαρότησ, μυσαρότητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 兇悍 (ferocity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうか" (assassin, between the mountains, breast, chest, ferocity, instructor, mirror, one's hometown, outlaw, paragon, professor, response, scream, shout, sympathy, teacher, villain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | einousnesshay гнусность (enormity, infamy, odiousness). (various references) enormidad (enormity, enormousness, formidability, iniquity, monstrousness, rankness, wicked thing). (various references) iğrençlik (being disgusting, enormity, foulness, frightfulness, hideousness, loathsomeness, lousiness, nastiness, nauseousness, obscenity, odiousness, odium, offensiveness, repulsiveness, ugliness). (various references) tính chất cực kỳ t n ác. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | immanitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heinousness": heinousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-n-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: nonissues, sunshines. | |
-3 letters: enosises, noesises, nonissue, nosiness, sunshine, unsonsie. | |
-4 letters: eosines, essoins, heinous, hussies, nonuses, oneness, osseins, session, sinuses, sonnies, unisons. | |
-5 letters: ennuis, enosis, ensues, eosine, eosins, essoin, hisses, hoises, houses, issues, nesses, noesis, noises, nonuse, noshes, nouses, onuses, ossein, seines, seises, senses, sheens, shines, sneesh, sonsie, souses, sushis, unions, unison, unseen. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-n-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: unholinesses. | |
+2 letters: heinousnesses. | |
+3 letters: euphoniousness, unworthinesses. | |
+4 letters: nucleosynthesis, unrighteousness. | |
+5 letters: diaphanousnesses, euphoniousnesses, harmoniousnesses, outlandishnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 69 6E 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .. -. --- ..- ... -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101001 01101110 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e i n o u s n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0069 006E 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271758081878580718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Historic 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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