badness vs undesirability
undesirability vs badnessbadness and undesirability both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| badness | Yes | No | No | No |
| undesirability | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
undesirability is a hyponym of
badness; that is, undesirability is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
badness:
- badness: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
- undesirability: the quality possessed by something that should be avoided
Other hyponyms of badness include
unworthiness, evil, evilness, worse, unsoundness, liability, inadvisability.
| badness (noun) | undesirability (noun) |
|---|---|
| that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | the quality possessed by something that should be avoided |
| used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | |
| an attribute of mischievous children |
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