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[syn: evil, evilness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Evilness \E"vil*ness\, n.
The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness;
malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of
sin.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
evilness
n 1: the quality of being morally wrong in principle or
practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the
world" [syn: evil, evilness] [ant: good, goodness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "evilness":
arrantness, badness, baseness, damnability, devilishness, devilry,
deviltry, fiendishness, flagitiousness, foulness, heinousness,
hellishness, improperness, inaccuracy, inauspiciousness,
inexpedience, inferiority, iniquitousness, invalidity, malevolence,
moral badness, naughtiness, nefariousness, peccancy, rankness,
reprehensibility, sinfulness, unfavorableness, unhealthiness,
unkindness, unpleasantness, unskillfulness, viciousness, vileness,
villainousness, wickedness