badness vs liability

badness and liability both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
badness	Yes	No	No	No
liability	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, liability is a hyponym of badness; that is, liability is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than badness:

badness: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
liability: the quality of being something that holds you back

Other hyponyms of badness include unworthiness, evil, evilness, undesirability, worse, unsoundness, inadvisability.

badness (noun)	liability (noun)
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency	the quality of being something that holds you back
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather	an obligation to pay money to another party
an attribute of mischievous children	the state of being legally obliged and responsible