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Badness
//ˈbæd.nəs// noun
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Noun
- 1 The quality or degree of being bad. countable, uncountable
"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; […]"
- 2 an attribute of mischievous children wordnet
- 3 used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather wordnet
- 4 that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad + -ness.
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