Mischievousness

Definition: Mischievousness

Mischievousness

Noun

1. An attribute of mischievous children.

2. The trait of behaving like an imp.

3. Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others.

Date "mischievousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references)

Synonyms: Mischievousness

Synonyms: badness (n), devilment (n), devilry (n), deviltry (n), impishness (n), mischief (n), mischief-making (n), naughtiness (n), puckishness (n), rascality (n), roguery (n), roguishness (n), shenanigan (n), whimsicality (n). (additional references)

"Mischievousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mischievousness" is used about 8 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%	8	124,375

Language		Translations for "mischievousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dëm (damage, Dent, detriment, disadvantage, harm, impairment, injury, insalubrity, lesion, maleficence, mischief, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, violence). (various references)

Arabic		‏إزعاج (annoyance, annoying, bother, botheration, discomfort, disquiet, disruption, disturbance, harassing, harassment, importunity, inconvenience, loudness, molestation, movement, nuisance, offence, patter, trouble), ‏بزاءة. (various references)

Bulgarian		злонамереност (malice, wickedness), палавост (mischief, naughtiness, playfulness, vivacity). (various references)

Czech		zlomyslnost (malevolence, malice, malignancy, malignity, rancor, spite, viciousness). (various references)

Finnish		veikeys. (various references)

French		malice (mischief), méchanceté, polissonnerie (mischief). (various references)

German		verschmitztheit (mischief, shrewdness, slyness), schelmisches wesen, Schädlichkeit (contagiousness, deleteriousness, disadvantageousness, harmfulness, hurtfulness, noxiousness, perniciousness), bosheit (cursedness, fiendishness, impishness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, nastiness, venom, wickedness). (various references)

Greek		αταξία (ataxia, clutter, confusion, disaray, disarray, disorder, irregularity, mess, mischief, naughtiness, prank, shenanighan, wildness). (various references)

Hebrew		שובבות (misbehavior, misbehaviour, mischief, naughtiness, perkiness, roguery), פרחחות (hooliganism, larrikinism, rowdiness), � כל� ות (deceitfulness, fraudulence). (various references)

Hungarian		baj (bane, bother, complaint, discomfort, grief, harm, malady, matter, misadventure, mischief, misery, misfortune, need, pits, predicament, trouble, woe). (various references)

Manx		skiellaght (injuriousness), olkys (badness, evilness, iniquity, lousiness, malignancy, malignity, mischief, moral ill, naughtiness, pravity, viciousness, wickedness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ischievousnessmay.(various references)

Russian		неправильное понимание (miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misunderstanding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vragolastost, nestašnost, štetnost (noxiousness), škodljivost (noxiousness). (various references)

Spanish		malicia (archness, cattiness, catty, malice, maliciousness, mischief, naughtiness, slyness, wickedness), travesuras (antics, monkeyshine, naughtiness, roguery). (various references)

Turkish		yaramazlık (devilment, devilry, fooling, misbehavior, misbehaviour, mischief, naughtiness, prank, roguery). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính tinh quái (impishness), tính hiểm độc tính có hại tính tinh nghịch, tính ác (maleficence, malignance, malignancy, malignity, nastiness, unrighteousness). (various references)

Welsh		direidi (mischief). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mischievousness": mischievousnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-i-m-n-o-s-s-s-s-u-v"
	-2 letters: viciousnesses.
	-3 letters: secessionism.
	-4 letters: mischievous, mousinesses, mushinesses, viciousness, viscousness.
	-5 letters: cosinesses, hominesses, meniscuses, muchnesses, secessions, suchnesses.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-i-m-n-o-s-s-s-s-u-v"
	+2 letters: mischievousnesses.
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Mischievousness

Definition: Mischievousness