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EVILNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
Example:
attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world
Synonyms:
evil; evilness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
