"evility" meaning in All languages combined

See evility on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: evilities [plural]
Etymology: From evil + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|evil|ity}} evil + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} evility (countable and uncountable, plural evilities)
  1. The state, quality or an instance of being evil. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: evilness

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2019 April 28, Elizabeth Corning, An Overview of Astronism, Wiseman Publishers, page 326:",
          "text": "Lightness and darkness, goodness and evility, proximity and distance; extremity it All around us in our lives and in the very naturities, orderities, functionalities, and structures of The Cosmos we know now.",
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