| NOUN | feeling | malevolence, malignity | wishing evil to others |
|---|---|---|---|
| attribute | malevolence, malevolency, malice | the quality of threatening evil |
| Meaning | wishing evil to others. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | malignity | |
| Narrower | maleficence | Doing or causing evil |
| malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom | Feeling a need to see others suffer | |
| vindictiveness, vengefulness | A malevolent desire for revenge | |
| Broader | hate, hatred | The emotion of intense dislike |
| Opposite | benevolence | Disposition to do good |
| Spanish | malevolencia, malignidad | |
| Catalan | malignitat, malvolença | |
| Adjectives | malevolent | wishing or appearing to wish evil to others |
| Meaning | The quality of threatening evil. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | malevolency, malice | |
| Narrower | beastliness, meanness | The quality of being deliberately mean / mean |
| cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | |
| cruelty, cruelness, harshness | The quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | |
| Broader | evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
| Spanish | malevolencia, malicia | |
| Catalan | malevolència, malícia, malvolença | |
| Adjectives | malevolent | having or exerting a malignant influence |
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