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evilness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun evilness has 1 sense
- evilness(n = noun.attribute) evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" has particulars: malevolence, malevolency, malice, malignance, malignancy, malignity, balefulness, maleficence, mischief, worst, nefariousness, ugliness, vileness, wickedness, reprehensibility, villainousness, villainy, perverseness, perversity, error, wrongdoing, frailty, vice
is a kind of immorality
Derived forms adjective evil1, adjective evil2
Antonym: goodness
CIDE DICTIONARY
evilness, n.
The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
evilness
arrantness, badness, baseness, damnability, devilishness, devilry, deviltry, fiendishness, flagitiousness, foulness, heinousness, hellishness, improperness, inaccuracy, inauspiciousness, inexpedience, inferiority, iniquitousness, invalidity, malevolence, moral badness, naughtiness, nefariousness, peccancy, rankness, reprehensibility, sinfulness, unfavorableness, unhealthiness, unkindness, unpleasantness, unskillfulness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, wickedness
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