Evilness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  evilness
       n : the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;
           "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
           [syn: {evil}] [ant: {good}, {good}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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