- virulence
- n1. poisonousness, venomousness, ven-omness, toxicity, deadliness, virulency; lethality, fatalness; noxiousness, harmfulness, hurtfulness, injuriousness, detrimentalness, detrimentality, deleteriousness, unwholesomeness, unhealthiness; destructiveness, ru-inousness, perniciousness, balefulness.2. hostility, resentment, indignation, pique, anger; spite, malice, rancor; antagonism, malevolence, malignity; aggression, belligerence, bellicosity.3. acrimony, acrimoniousness, causticity, asperity, mordancy, acridness, acridity, pungency; astringency, severity, sternness, acerbity, austerity, stringency; harshness, sharpness, sourness, acidulousness, acidity, bitterness, tartness, trenchancy, keenness, sarcasm, satire, irony; peevishness, petulance, Rare. petulancy, crabbedness, tetchiness, touchiness, irascibility, edginess; ill temper, ill-temperedness, short-temperedness, ill humor, ill-humoredness.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.