badness
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈbædnəs/
:
maldad
- And that you can always make goodness out of badness .
- goodness and badness
- moral badness
Examples
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We must deal with the badness, make terms.
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There is a lot of badness going on right around your corner.
Blog text (8) -
You are able to look into their hearts and see this badness?
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There's a lot of... well, badness in the world today.
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But one person's liberation is another person's badness.
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The consequences of her badness became clear only after they absconded.
Fiction book (1992) -
We stay locked into the badness and we don't grow up.
Blog text (27) -
Who the students are determines the "goodness" or "badness" of a school (in the main).
Blog text (22) -
How do adolescent girls today define the concepts of goodness and badness?
Academic text (2003) -
Many children experience badness when they misbehave at school and disrupt their classmates.
Synonyms
28
5.2
A state of being morally wrong or evil
20
4.6
A quality of being morally bad or cruel
17
4.2
A feeling of discomfort or dislike
8
6.5
A quality of doing very bad things and wanting to harm people
7
6.0
A very unpleasant quality that makes people feel bad
6
4.1
Very severe or unkind treatment that causes harm
6
6.8
A state of being not accepted by society or by moral standards
3
5.0
A strong unpleasant quality that makes people uncomfortable
2
6.7
A harsh, unpleasant quality that makes people feel afraid or worried
2
8.0
Very bad and morally wrong behavior
2
8.0
Being very rude and annoying to other people
1
6.6
A state when something is very bad and frightening
1
7.9
Very bad and immoral behavior that harms other people
1
7.8
A feeling that things are bad or you feel unwell
1
9.6
A very bad quality that makes something unpleasant
1
5.9
A very unpleasant, shocking state that causes fear or disgust
1
6.5
How gross or unpleasant something is
1
8.8
A state of being dirty and morally bad
1
6.9
A poor, unpleasant quality in things like rooms or food
1
9.1
A strong feeling that something is very unpleasant or disgusting
1
9.3
A behavior that people find morally wrong or offensive
1
9.6
Very evil behaviour that harms other people
1
9.9
Very bad actions that break the law
A state when something is not good enough for rules or standards
A state of having faults or problems that stop something from working
How bad something looks, sounds, or smells to you
A quality of being unpleasant and hard to get along with that makes people avoid you
A very unpleasant quality that shocks people
A very strong feeling of fear when something is shocking or awful
A look or feeling that seems threatening
Very cruel actions that shock people
A quality of being very unpleasant and causing strong dislike
Being harmful to health or to people's morals
Being unpleasant or offensive and making people feel dislike
Being very bad and cruel to other people
A state that makes people feel offended or dislike something
A situation that makes success unlikely
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Badness is simply the describing word bad plus the ending -ness, which turns a describing word into a thing that names 'the state of being bad', just like kindness names 'the state of being kind'. So badness means the quality of being wrong, harmful, or unpleasant.