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BADNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An attribute of mischievous children
Synonyms:
badness; mischievousness; naughtiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("badness" is a kind of...):
disobedience (the trait of being unwilling to obey)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "badness"):
prankishness; rascality; roguishness (the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
Synonyms:
badness; severeness; severity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("badness" is a kind of...):
intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "badness"):
foulness; raininess ((of weather) the badness of the weather)
distressfulness; seriousness (the quality of arousing fear or distress)
Derivation:
bad (feeling physical discomfort or pain ('tough' is occasionally used colloquially for 'bad'))
bad (very intense)
Sense 3
Meaning:
That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
Example:
take the bad with the good
Synonyms:
bad; badness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("badness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "badness"):
unworthiness (the quality or state of lacking merit or value)
undesirability (the quality possessed by something that should be avoided)
worse (something inferior in quality or condition or effect)
evil (that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune)
unsoundness (not mentally or physically healthy)
liability (the quality of being something that holds you back)
inadvisability (the quality of being ill-advised)
Antonym:
goodness (that which is pleasing or valuable or useful)
Derivation:
bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)
bad (characterized by wickedness or immorality)
bad (below average in quality or performance)
