badness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
    bad.
    • take the bad with the good
  2. noun used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
    severity; severeness.
  3. noun an attribute of mischievous children
    mischievousness; naughtiness.

WordNet


Bad"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The state of being bad.

Webster 1913