Definition of Mischievousness

1. Noun. An attribute of mischievous children.

Exact synonyms: Badness, Naughtiness
Generic synonyms: Disobedience
Specialized synonyms: Prankishness, Rascality, Roguishness
Derivative terms: Naughty

2. Noun. The trait of behaving like an imp.
Exact synonyms: Impishness, Puckishness, Whimsicality
Generic synonyms: Fun, Playfulness
Derivative terms: Impish, Mischievous, Puckish

3. Noun. Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others.

Definition of Mischievousness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mischievousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mischievousness

mischarge
mischarged
mischarges
mischarging
mischevious
mischief
mischief-maker
mischief-making
mischiefful
mischiefmaking
mischiefs
mischieve
mischievious
mischievous
mischievously
mischievousness
mischivous
mischmetal
mischmetals
mischoice
mischoices
mischoose
mischooses
mischoosing
mischose
mischosen
mischristen
mischristened
mischristening
mischristens

Literary usage of Mischievousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rationale of judicial evidence, specially applied to English practice, from by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"Mischievousness of oaths. Inefficacious as is the ceremony of an oath to all good purposes, it is by no means inefficacious to bad ones. weed—an accidental ..."

2. How to be a Man: a Book for Boys: Containing Useful Hints on the Formation by Harvey Newcomb (1856)
"Mischievousness. THERE are some boys, who carelessly go any where that they can find amusement, without regard to the character of their company. ..."

3. Faults of Childhood and Youth by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1920)
"... Mischievousness The following type described by a parent will bring the mischievous trait before us: '' I have a boy in my school who is the only boy in ..."

4. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"formed for the purpose of perpetrating all kinds of rascality and mischievousness, both on their fellow-students and the neighboring people. ..."

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