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undesirability vs badness

badness vs undesirability

undesirability and badness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
undesirability Yes No No No
badness Yes No No No
As nouns, badness is a hypernym of undesirability; that is, badness is a word with a broader meaning than undesirability:
  • undesirability: the quality possessed by something that should be avoided
  • badness: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
Other hypernyms of undesirability include bad.
undesirability (noun) badness (noun)
the quality possessed by something that should be avoided that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
an attribute of mischievous children
Difference between undesirability and badness

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