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EVILNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evilness mean? 

EVILNESS (noun)
  The noun EVILNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practiceplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EVILNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

evil; evilness

Context example:

attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world

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

immorality (the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct)

Attribute:

evil (morally bad or wrong)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evilness"):

malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)

malignance; malignancy; malignity (quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will)

balefulness; maleficence; mischief (the quality or nature of being harmful or evil)

worst (the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable)

nefariousness; ugliness; vileness; wickedness (the quality of being wicked)

reprehensibility (being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproof)

villainousness; villainy (the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior)

perverseness; perversity (deliberately deviating from what is good)

error; wrongdoing (departure from what is ethically acceptable)

frailty; vice (moral weakness)

Antonym:

goodness (moral excellence or admirableness)

Derivation:

evil (morally bad or wrong)

evil (having the nature of vice)


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