badness

From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad +‎ -ness.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæd.nəs/

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• Rhymes: -ædnəs

badness (countable and uncountable, plural badnesses)

1. 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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