Associations to the word «Badness»

Wiktionary

BADNESS, noun. The quality of being bad.

Dictionary definition

BADNESS, noun. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good".
BADNESS, noun. Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather.
BADNESS, noun. An attribute of mischievous children.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne