BADNESS

Pronunciation (US):

• BADNESS (noun)
  The noun BADNESS has 3 senses:

1. that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
2. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
3. an attribute of mischievous children

  Familiarity information: BADNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

• BADNESS (noun)

Meaning:

That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bad; badness

Context example:

take the bad with the good

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"):

liability (the quality of being something that holds you back)

unsoundness (not mentally or physically healthy)

evil (that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune)

worse (something inferior in quality or condition or effect)

undesirability (the quality possessed by something that should be avoided)

unworthiness (the quality or state of lacking merit or value)

inadvisability (the quality of being ill-advised)

Antonym:

goodness (that which is pleasing or valuable or useful)

Meaning:

Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

severeness; severity; badness

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)

Meaning:

An attribute of mischievous children

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

mischievousness; naughtiness; badness

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)