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Badness definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BAD'NESS, n. The state of being bad, evil, vicious or depraved; want of good qualities, natural or moral; as the badness of the heart, of the season, of the roads, _ c.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: bad, badness] [ant: good, goodness]
2: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness]
3: an attribute of mischievous children [syn: naughtiness, mischievousness, badness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see bad I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Badness Bad"ness, n. The state of being bad.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see bad