Violentness vs. Violence

(rare) The state or condition of being violent; violence, force.

Extreme force.

Example: ‘The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.’;

Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.

Example: ‘We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.’;

Widespread fighting.

Example: ‘Violence between the government and the rebels continues.’;

(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.

Example: ‘The translation does violence to the original novel.’;

(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation

(nonstandard) To subject to violence.

The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.

Example: ‘That sealYou ask with such a violence, the king,Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.’; ‘All the elementsAt least had gone to wrack, disturbed and tornWith the violence of this conflict.’;

Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.

Example: ‘Do violence to do man.’; ‘We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.’; ‘Looking down, he sawThe whole earth filled with violence.’;

Ravishment; rape; constupration.

To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists);

Example: ‘he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one’;

the property of being wild or turbulent;

Example: ‘the storm's violence’;

a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as Internationally, violence resulted in deaths of an estimated 1.28 million people in 2013 up from 1.13 million in 1990.

Example: ‘the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation.’;