"badness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbæd.nəs/ Forms: badnesses [plural]
Rhymes: -ædnəs Etymology: bad + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|bad|ness}} bad + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} badness (countable and uncountable, plural badnesses)
  1. The quality or degree of being bad. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: bad, evil, troublemaker, do evil Translations (the quality of being bad): κακία (kakía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), سُوء (sūʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), bua [childish, feminine] (Catalan), خِراپە (xirape) (Central Kurdish), malbono (Esperanto), pahuus (Finnish), სიცუდე (sicude) (Georgian), უვარგისობა (uvargisoba) (Georgian), Schlechtigkeit [feminine] (German), רוע (ro'a) [masculine] (Hebrew), बुराई (burāī) [feminine] (Hindi), rosszaság (Hungarian), donacht [feminine] (Irish), ainnise [feminine] (Irish), olcas [masculine] (Irish), niegodziwość [feminine] (Polish), ruindade [especially, feminine] (Portuguese), maldade [especially, feminine] (Portuguese), răutate [feminine] (Romanian), него́дность (negódnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), maldad [feminine] (Spanish), చెడ్డతనము (ceḍḍatanamu) (Telugu), kötülük (Turkish), bad (Volapük), drygioni [masculine] (Welsh)

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