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fiendishness

noun

Etymology

From fiendish + -ness.

  1. derived from *peh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *fijandz✻
  3. inherited from *fijand✻
  4. inherited from fēond — “enemy”
  5. inherited from fend
  6. suffixed as fiendish — “fiend + ish”
  7. suffixed as fiendishness — “fiendish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being fiendish.

    • He added, “I didn’t give enough credit to the fiendishness of the C.I.A.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fiendishness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA