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MALEVOLENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does malevolency mean?
• MALEVOLENCY (noun)
The noun MALEVOLENCY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of threatening evil
Familiarity information: MALEVOLENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of threatening evil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
malevolence; malevolency; malice
Hypernyms ("malevolency" is a kind of...):
evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malevolency"):
bitchiness; cattiness; nastiness; spite; spitefulness (malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty)
cruelness; cruelty; harshness (the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance)
beastliness; meanness (the quality of being deliberately mean)
Derivation:
malevolent (having or exerting a malignant influence)
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