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evility

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English

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Etymology

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From evil +‎ -ity.

Noun

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evility (countable and uncountable, plural evilities)

  1. The state, quality or an instance of being evil.
    Synonym: evilness
    • 2006, Jeffrey C. Alexander, The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 75:
      For as a metaphor for radical evil, the Holocaust provided a standard of evaluation for judging the evility of other threatening acts.
    • 2007 September, Adam Rutherford, Illusionary Existence, Genesis, and Other Miscellaneous Works, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 82:
      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.
    • 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:
      Despite the ingrown evilities I encounter, I always want to believe that everyone is innately good.
    • 2019 April 28, Elizabeth Corning, An Overview of Astronism, Wiseman Publishers, page 326:
      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.