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MALEVOLENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of threatening evil
Synonyms:
malevolence; malevolency; malice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
