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badness vs unsoundness

unsoundness vs badness

badness and unsoundness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
badness Yes No No No
unsoundness Yes No No No
As nouns, unsoundness is a hyponym of badness; that is, unsoundness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than badness:
  • badness: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
  • unsoundness: not mentally or physically healthy
Other hyponyms of badness include unworthiness, evil, evilness, undesirability, worse, liability, inadvisability.
badness (noun) unsoundness (noun)
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency not mentally or physically healthy
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather a misconception that is fallacious and not true or valid
an attribute of mischievous children a condition of damage or decay
Difference between badness and unsoundness

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