evilness
English
Etymology
evil + -ness
Noun
evilness (countable and uncountable, plural evilnesses)
- The quality or state of being evil.
- 1808, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church
- […] they lament the evilness and malice of evil men, and pray God for the evil, that he will convert them from their evilness and malice, and so make them good of evil men.
- 1808, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church
Synonyms
- badness
- viciousness
- malignity
- vileness
Translations
of or relating to evil
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Further reading
- evilness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- evilness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- liveness, veinless, vileness, vineless