liability vs badness

liability and badness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, badness is a hypernym of liability; that is, badness is a word with a broader meaning than liability:

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

Other hypernyms of liability include bad.

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