Virulence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Virulence \Vir"u*lence\, Virulency \Vir"u*len*cy\, n. [Cf. F.
     virulence, L. virulentia an offensive odor, a stench.]
     1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous;
        poisonousness; malignancy.
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     2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted
        without satirical virulency." --Barrow.
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              The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities
              and sublimities of the other.         --I. Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  virulence
       n 1: extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to
            cause disease); "the virulence of the plague" [syn: {virulency}]
       2: extreme hostility; "the virulence of the malicious old man"
          [syn: {virulency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  181 Moby Thesaurus words for "virulence":
     acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony,
     acuteness, amperage, animality, animosity, animus, antagonism,
     armipotence, asperity, astringency, atrocity, authority, bad blood,
     balefulness, banefulness, barbarity, beef, bile, bite,
     bitter feeling, bitter resentment, bitterness,
     bitterness of spirit, black power, bloodlust, brutality,
     brute force, causticity, charge, charisma, choler, clout, cogence,
     cogency, communicability, compulsion, contagiousness, deadliness,
     destructiveness, detrimentalness, dint, drive, duress, edge,
     effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, extremity, fatality,
     ferociousness, feud, fierceness, flower power, force,
     force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, furiousness,
     gall, gnashing of teeth, grip, hard feelings, harmfulness,
     harshness, hatred, heartburning, hostility, hurtfulness, ill blood,
     ill feeling, ill will, impetuosity, inclemency, infectiousness,
     infectivity, influence, inhumanity, injuriousness, intensity,
     keenness, lethality, main force, main strength, malevolence,
     malice, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mana,
     mercilessness, might, might and main, mightiness, mindlessness,
     mischievousness, mordacity, mordancy, mortality, moxie,
     murderousness, muscle power, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness,
     perniciousness, pitilessness, pizzazz, poignancy, point, poison,
     poisonousness, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power,
     power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness,
     prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch,
     push, rancor, rankling, resentment, rigor, roughness, savagery,
     severity, sharpness, sinew, slow burn, soreness, sourness, spite,
     spleen, steam, sting, strength, stridency, stringency, strong arm,
     superiority, superpower, tartness, teeth, terrorism, toxicity,
     trenchancy, ungentleness, unhealthiness, validity, vandalism,
     vehemence, vendetta, venom, venomousness, viciousness, vigor, vim,
     violence, virility, virtue, virulency, vitality, vitriol, wattage,
     weight