badness

Meaning

The quality or degree of being bad.

Synonyms

wickedness
evil
sin
bad
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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
unfitness
unhealthy
unrighteousness
unruliness
viciousness
vileness
villainousness
want
wilfulness
willfulness
worthlessness
crime

bad point

bad state

undiscipline
bad language
bitterness
corruptness
cruelty
defect
deficiency
delinquent
depreciation
deterioration
devilry
disobedience
drawback
enmity
failure
fault
ferocity
fractiousness
hardness
harmless
Frequency

42k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbæd.nəs/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
baddenes
In summary

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

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