wrathfulness
State of rage
Wrathfulness is the quality of being full of wrath—intense, often righteous anger.
The word carries a formal or biblical tone, suggesting fury that builds and seethes rather than flashes briefly: The wrathfulness in his voice made everyone step back.
Less common than wrath or angry, it emphasizes anger as a sustained state of being.
Intense violent anger
- rageIntense, violent anger
- ireIntense fury
- indignationAnger from mistreatment
- outrageFierce moral indignation
resentment · hostility · bitterness · animosity · acrimony · spite · malice · hate
Extreme violent intensity
- vehemenceForceful emotional passion
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- violenceHarmful physical force
- furyIntense violent anger
frenzy · explosiveness · severity · turbulence · storminess · heat · flame · passion
Punishment for wrongdoing
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- reprisalPunitive action in return
nemesis · comeuppance · requital · avenger · redress · tit-for-tat · vengeful · retaliatory
fury
Intense violent anger
- rageIntense, violent anger
- ireIntense fury
- indignationAnger from mistreatment
outrage · resentment · hostility · bitterness · animosity · acrimony · spite · malice · hate · choler
ferocity
Extreme violent intensity
fury · frenzy · explosiveness · severity · turbulence · storminess · heat · flame · passion · ardor
retribution
Punishment for wrongdoing
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
reprisal · nemesis · comeuppance · requital · avenger · redress · tit-for-tat · vengeful · retaliatory · vindictiveness
wrathfulnesscalmness
Peaceful mental state
serenity · tranquility · peacefulness · placidity · equanimity
wrathfulnessforbearance
Patient self-control, delayed enforcement
patience · forgiveness · clemency · mercifulness · lenience
wrathfulnesspatience
Calm during delays
forbearance · long-suffering · imperturbability · unflappability · meekness
enrage, enraged, wrath, irate, wrathful, wrathfully, wroth, wraths, irately