badness

Other forms of badness

plural

badnesses·

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.

Questions about badness

What does badness mean?

badness means "that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in badness?

badness has 2 syllables: bad-ness. The stress falls on "bad". In IPA it is /ˈbædnəs/.

What is another word for badness?

Close synonyms include bad, severity, severeness, naughtiness, mischievousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of badness?

The recorded antonyms are goodness.

Is badness a common word?

badness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.