evility

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noun

The state, quality or an instance of being evil.

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Meanings

nounevility (countable and uncountable, plural evilities)

plural evilities

  1. countableuncountableThe state, quality or an instance of being evil.

    Despite the ingrown evilities I encounter, I always want to believe that everyone is innately good.

    2015 December 7, Nancy Louise Lewis, Daisies Don't Lie: Misadventures in Journalism: The Making of a Feminist, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 68
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    For as a metaphor for radical evil, the Holocaust provided a standard of evaluation for judging the evility of other threatening acts.

    2006, Jeffrey C. Alexander, The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 75

    Evility is the essence of being evil as goodness is the essence of being good. Evility is the sign of imperfection, but since time does not have evility, time is perfect.

    2007 September 29, Adam Rutherford, Illusionary Existence, Genesis, and Other Miscellaneous Works, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 82

    Lightness and darkness, goodness and evility, proximity and distance; extremity it All around us in our lives and in the very naturities, orderities, functionalities, and structures of The Cosmos we know now.

    2019 April 28, Elizabeth Corning, An Overview of Astronism, Wiseman Publishers, page 326

    Synonyms: evilness

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe state, quality or an instance of being evil.

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“evility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/evility. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “evility,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/evility.

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