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badness vs evilness

evilness vs badness

badness and evilness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
badness Yes No No No
evilness Yes No No No
As nouns, evilness is a hyponym of badness; that is, evilness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than badness:
  • badness: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
  • evilness: the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
Other hyponyms of badness include unworthiness, evil, undesirability, worse, unsoundness, liability, inadvisability.
badness (noun) evilness (noun)
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
an attribute of mischievous children
Difference between badness and evilness

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