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Perniciousness

Definition: Perniciousness

Perniciousness

Noun

1. Grave harmfulness or deadliness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Perniciousness

Synonym: toxicity (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Perniciousness

Language Translations for "perniciousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

verderblichkeit (balefulness, perishability, perishableness, putridness, ruinousness, unwholesomeness), tücke (danger, fickleness, guile, malice, perfidy, peril, ruse, spite, treacherousness, treachery, trick, vagary), Schädlichkeit (contagiousness, deleteriousness, disadvantageousness, harmfulness, hurtfulness, mischievousness, noxiousness), schädlich (adverse, baneful, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, harmfull, hurtful, inimical, injurious, injuriously, malign, malignly, mischievous, mischievously, noisome, nonconstructive, noxal, noxious, noxiously, pernicious, prejudicial, unhealthy), bösartigkeit (ferocity, fierceness, malfeasance, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, mischief, nastiness, sinisterness, viciousness, virulence). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βλαβερότησ (injuriousness, noxiousness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erniciousnesspay

   

Romanian

  

caracter vãtãmãtor. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пагубность (malignity). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính nguy hại, tính độc hại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Perniciousness

Derivations

Words beginning with "perniciousness": perniciousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Perniciousness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-u"

-2 letters: preciousness.

-3 letters: corninesses, percussions, precessions, supersonics.

-4 letters: cousinries, crispiness, incursions, ironnesses, necropsies, pensioners, percussion, pernicious, precession, preciouses, precisions, princesses, puninesses, recensions, recessions, rescission, ropinesses, spinneries, spruceness, sunscreens, supersonic, supineness, suspension, suspicions, unripeness.

-5 letters: cinereous, coinsures, consensus, conspires, corniness, crispness, espousers, icinesses, incisures, incorpses, incrosses, incursion, insincere, isoprenes, noisiness, noncrises, noncrisis, nonissues, nonsecure, pensioner, pensiones.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: perniciousnesses, pertinaciousness.

 

+4 letters: pertinaciousnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Perniciousness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 72 6E 69 63 69 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#114 &#110 &#105 &#99 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0072 006E 0069 0063 0069 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5071848075697581878580718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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