inveteracy

inveteracy has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error.
• n.. Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.