English noun: evilness |
1. | evilness (attribute) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
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| Samples | Attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world.
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| Synonyms | evil |
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| Broader (hypernym) | immorality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | balefulness, error, frailty, maleficence, malevolence, malevolency, malice, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mischief, nefariousness, perverseness, perversity, reprehensibility, ugliness, vice, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wickedness, worst, wrongdoing |
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| Attribute | evil |
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| Antonyms | good, goodness |
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