Meaning & use
Evilness
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The quality or state of being morally wrong or wicked.
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The novel explores the banality of evilness in ordinary people.
Few villains in literature embody pure evilness as vividly as this one.
A note on using this word
"Evilness" and "evil" (used as a noun) overlap in meaning, but "evil" is far more commonly used as the abstract noun in modern English.
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