English > evilness: 1 sense > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice. |
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| Synonym | evil |
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| Attributes | evil | morally bad or wrong |
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| Narrower | error, wrongdoing | departure from what is ethically acceptable |
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| frailty, vice | Moral weakness |
| maleficence, mischief, balefulness | The quality or nature of being harmful or evil |
| malevolence, malevolency, malice | The quality of threatening evil |
| malignity, malignancy, malignance | Quality of being disposed to evil |
| nefariousness, wickedness, vileness, ugliness | The quality of being wicked |
| perversity, perverseness | deliberately deviating from what is good |
| reprehensibility | reprehensible |
| villainy, villainousness | The quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior |
| worst | The greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable |
| Broader | immorality | The quality of not being in accord / accord with standards of right or good conduct |
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| Opposite | good, goodness | moral excellence or admirableness |
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| Spanish | maldad, mal |
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| Catalan | maldat, malesa, mal |
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| Adjectives | evil | morally bad or wrong |
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| evil | having the nature of vice |
