EVILNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)