Antonyms for abusiveness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-byoo-siv |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈbyu sɪv |
Definition of abusiveness
Origin :- 1530s (implied in abusively), originally "improper," from Middle French abusif, from Latin abusivus, from abus-, past participle stem of abuti (see abuse (v.)). Meaning "full of abuse" is from 1580s. Abuseful was used 17c., and Shakespeare has abusious ("Taming of the Shrew," 1594). Related: Abusiveness.
- As in oppression : noun misery, hardship
- The palm for abusiveness was, however, carried off by Nicholls and Jekyll.
- Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
- Their crude productions, for the most part, were conspicuous rather for insolence and abusiveness than for logic or learning.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 » by Various
- His answer to the offensive production flows with anger, and is harsh even to abusiveness.
- Extract from : « The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch » by Petrarch
Synonyms for abusiveness
- abuse
- abusiveness
- autocracy
- brutality
- calamity
- coercion
- compulsion
- conquering
- control
- cruelty
- despotism
- dictatorship
- domination
- fascism
- force
- forcibleness
- hardness
- harshness
- injury
- injustice
- iron hand
- maltreatment
- martial law
- overthrowing
- persecution
- severity
- subduing
- subjection
- suffering
- torment
- tyrrany
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