| 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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