English noun: malice | |||
1. | malice (feeling) feeling a need to see others suffer | ||
Synonyms | maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom | ||
Broader (hypernym) | malevolence, malignity | ||
2. | malice (attribute) the quality of threatening evil | ||
Synonyms | malevolence, malevolency | ||
Broader (hypernym) | evil, evilness | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | beastliness, bitchiness, cattiness, cruelness, cruelty, harshness, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness | ||