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badness

Today it means: The quality or degree of being bad. Full definition →

Middle English baddenes

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Middle English · inherited frombaddenes
English todaybadness

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.