What is "vilenesses"

Usage examples of "vilenesses".

Or (to put it another way) when a finger is mutilated, and fountains of blood flow out, all manner of vilenesses become possible… whether or not the cracks in the Conference were the (active‑metaphorical) result of my finger‑loss, they were certainly widening.

But they don’t counterbalance the mass slaughters, the barbarities, the unending tortures and torments, the vilenesses, the sicknesses, the tribal idiocies, the trillion rapes and humiliations that comprise the history of that world up until its mysterious ending (I doubt we’ll ever learn what happened, unless the Captains decide to tell us).

I think back through all that I know of human history, and I know a great deal, really—the plagues, the massacres, all the episodes of torture for the sheer fun of it, the great and petty vilenesses, the whole catalog of sins that Sophocles and Shakespeare and Strindberg understood so well—and I wonder why we aren't more jubilant about what we have attained in our own time.