[mass noun]

• casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people

– betrays a confidence

– separates close friends

– like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts

– Without wood a fire goes out…

– They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice…

– For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander…