evilness
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6.5
- noun
- /ˈivəlnəs/
:
malicia
- The circumstances do not add or subtract from the evilness of the act, although they may modify the moral culpability.
What is the evil, what is evilness.
- What is the evil, what is evilness.
- So I overcome the evilness of school children.
- How did you handle being round all the the serial fucking evilness of some of those prisoners?
- And reads the Daily Mail every day, is convinced about the evilness of drugs and that the war on drugs would still be fought right.
Examples
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The early moments of the war saw Church rhetoric focused on the "evilness of German militarism."
Academic text (2002) -
There will be plenty who see this as just another symptom of his overall evilness.
Blog text (1) -
And I felt his evilness my entire childhood.
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Deliver us from all of this evilness!
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But I find your evilness extremely annoying.
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We, as Christians, have to be filled with the Holy Spirit to come up against such evilness.
Blog text (13) -
It's possible she will hide her evilness from Henry in order to keep his affection, but it will ultimately be her demise.
Blog text (8) -
We cannot allow even the slightest possibility that their evilness is other than a willful choice.
Blog text (5) -
The poet exposes the evilness of the Jordanian usurers as devil-like: "Money lenders are brothers of Satan" (93).
Academic text (2018) -
The novel explores the deep evilness of the antagonist's actions throughout the story.
Synonyms
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3.0
Bad actions or a force that harms people
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5.2
A state of being morally wrong or evil
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8.8
A state of very bad moral behavior
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6.3
Bad behavior that people see as wrong or evil
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9.5
Very bad or unfair actions that harm people
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4.6
A quality of being morally bad or cruel
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8.1
Very bad actions that hurt other people
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8.9
Great evil that shocks people
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6.8
A state of being not accepted by society or by moral standards
2
8.0
Very bad and morally wrong behavior
2
7.5
A wish to hurt or make other people suffer
1
7.9
Very bad and immoral behavior that harms other people
1
8.4
A strong wish to harm others or make their lives worse
1
7.4
Something that is not right according to law or morals
1
9.5
The quality of being very evil and cruel that shocks people
1
9.6
Very evil behaviour that harms other people
1
9.9
Very bad actions that break the law
1
8.4
Very cruel and evil actions that harm people
1
9.3
A behavior that people find morally wrong or offensive
A quality of being very unpleasant and causing strong dislike
Being very bad and cruel to other people
Playful or wicked behavior that shows mischief
A feeling of wanting to harm other people
A look or feeling that seems threatening
Antonyms
How Evil
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Evilness comes from the older word evil, which came from an old English word yfel meaning 'bad' or 'harmful', and the ending -ness means 'state or quality', as in kindness. So, evilness is the 'state of being bad or wicked'.