BALEFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does balefulness mean? 

• BALEFULNESS (noun)
  The noun BALEFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality or nature of being harmful or evil

  Familiarity information: BALEFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALEFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or nature of being harmful or evil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

balefulness; maleficence; mischief

Hypernyms ("balefulness" is a kind of...):

evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)

Attribute:

maleficent (harmful or evil in intent or effect)

Derivation:

baleful (threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments)

baleful (deadly or sinister)