badness

Meaning

The quality or degree of being bad.

Synonyms

wickedness

evil

sin

bad

👎

naughtiness

malevolence

evilness

vice

depravity

inferiority

severity

mischievousness

malignity

villainy

poorly

wrong-doing

immorality

rottenness

severeness

nefariousness

illness

inaccuracy

incompetency

inexactness

iniquity

insubordination

laxity

littleness

maleficence

malice

malignance

mercilessness

mischief

nastiness

obduracy

poorness

reproach

rigor

rigour

roughness

rubbish

ruthlessness

spite

spitefulness

sternness

stiffness

terribleness

mean mischief

transgression

ugliness

Translations

maldad

méchanceté

cattiveria

Schlechtigkeit

maldade

nequitia nequities

κακία

mauvais

👎

maldat

Verderbtheit

mala conducta

immoralitat

iniquitat

bua

severitat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbæd.nəs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: baddenes

In summary

From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad + -ness.