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say it: BAD-nuhs
badness is a noun meaning "that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency". It carries 3 recorded senses.
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
“take the bad with the good”
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
an attribute of mischievous children
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for badness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.