badness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad + -ness.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
badness (countable and uncountable, plural badnesses)
- 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; […]
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Translations[edit]
the quality of being bad
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