Virulence
Virulence , noun
[Compare French virulence, Latin virulentia an offensive odor, a stench.]
1.
The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.
2.
Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.
Refuted without satirical virulency.
The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities of the other.
Also: Virulency