balefulness

1. 1.

   the quality or nature of being harmful or evil

   Synonymsmaleficencemischief

   Broaderevil

Other forms of balefulness

plural

balefulnesses·

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 balefulness

What does balefulness mean?

balefulness means "the quality or nature of being harmful or evil".

How many syllables are in balefulness?

balefulness has 4 syllables: ba-le-ful-ness. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for balefulness?

Close synonyms include maleficence, mischief. 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.

Is balefulness a common word?

balefulness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.