NOUN | feeling | malevolence, malignity | wishing evil to others |
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attribute | malevolence, malevolency, malice | the quality of threatening evil |
Meaning | wishing evil to others. | |
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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. | |
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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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