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injuriousness vs virulency

virulency vs injuriousness

injuriousness and virulency both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
injuriousness Yes No No No
virulency Yes No No No
As nouns, virulency is a hyponym of injuriousness; that is, virulency is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than injuriousness:
  • injuriousness: destructiveness that causes harm or injury
  • virulency: extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
Other hyponyms of injuriousness include insidiousness, virulence, ruinousness.
injuriousness (noun) virulency (noun)
destructiveness that causes harm or injury extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
extreme hostility
Difference between injuriousness and virulency

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