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evilness

Definitions of evilness
  1. noun
    the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
    synonyms: evil
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    Antonyms:
    good, goodness
    moral excellence or admirableness
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    malevolence, malevolency, malice
    the quality of threatening evil
    malignance, malignancy, malignity
    the 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
    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
    filthiness
    moral corruption or pollution
    enormity
    the quality of extreme wickedness
    type of:
    immorality
    the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct
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