badness

2 definitions found

badness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Badness \Bad"ness\, n.
     The state of being bad.
     [1913 Webster]

badness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  badness
      n 1: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics
           or decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: bad,
           badness] [ant: good, goodness]
      2: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or
         weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness]
      3: an attribute of mischievous children [syn: naughtiness,
         mischievousness, badness]