tortfeasance means the condition, or an act, of doing wrong; the act of committing a tort. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
tortfeasance is pronounced /ˈtɔːtˌfiːzəns/.
Why “tortfeasance” is a great word
TORTFEASANCE — [Noun] The specific act of committing a tort, a civil wrong that infringes upon another's rights and provides grounds for a lawsuit. From Anglo-Norman tortfesance, from Old French tort ("a wrong, misdeed") + fesance ("act, action, deed"). Unlike "tort" (which names the abstract category of civil wrongdoing) or "misfeasance" (which denotes the bungled execution of a lawful act), tortfeasance is the concrete, committed deed of civil transgression itself. It is the crushed flowers and snapped fence wire of a trespass, the surgeon's hand that trembles past the line of negligence, the libelous sentence committed to print—the formal naming of a private wrong as an action taken, an infringement completed, and a debt now owed.
noun
- The condition, or an act, of doing wrong; the act of committing a tort.“The defendant's tort-feasance is now set forth with the damage, and the plaintiff says, that the defendant with an intention to injure him in the enjoyment of his commonable estate, during the time of his being so entitled to his common, wrongfully put and depastured several cattle on the waste there, in consequence of which, he has been unable to make use of his commonable profits in as ample and”