Meanings
plural evilities
- 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 683 more examples
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 75Evility 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 82Lightness 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 326Synonyms: evilness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state, quality or an instance of being evil.
Origin
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