maleficence

Other forms of maleficence

plural

maleficences·

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 maleficence

What does maleficence mean?

maleficence means "doing or causing evil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maleficence?

maleficence has 4 syllables: ma-le-fi-cence. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for maleficence?

Close synonyms include mischief, balefulness. 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 maleficence?

The recorded antonyms are beneficence, beneficence.

Is maleficence a common word?

maleficence 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.