badness

English

Etymology

From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.nəs/
• Rhymes: -ædnəs

Noun

badness (countable and uncountable, plural badnesses)

1. The quality or degree of being bad.
   • 2015, J. M. Bernstein, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury, page 140:

     The badness of a dignitary harm derives from the victim's belief that a perpetrator is willing to override or ignore her standing as a person with rights, with dignity, as evidenced by the wrongful criminal deed; […]

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:badness

Translations

the quality of being bad

• Arabic: سُوء m (sūʔ)
• Catalan: (childish) bua (ca) f
• Esperanto: malbono
• Finnish: pahuus (fi)
• Georgian: სიცუდე (sicude), უვარგისობა (uvargisoba)
• German: Schlechtigkeit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: κακία f (kakía)

• Hebrew: רוע (he) m (ro'a)
• Hindi: बुराई (hi) f (burāī)
• Hungarian: rosszaság (hu)
• Irish: donacht f, ainnise (ga) f, olcas m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خِراپە (xirape)

• Polish: niegodziwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: ruindade (pt) f (especially in the sense of low-quality), maldade (pt) f (especially in the sense of evil)
• Romanian: răutate (ro) f
• Russian: него́дность (ru) f (negódnostʹ)
• Spanish: maldad (es) f
• Telugu: చెడ్డతనము (te) (ceḍḍatanamu)
• Turkish: kötülük (tr)
• Volapük: bad (vo)
• Welsh: drygioni m

Anagrams

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