malevolency

Questions about malevolency

What does malevolency mean?

malevolency means "the quality of threatening evil".

How many syllables are in malevolency?

malevolency has 5 syllables: ma-le-vo-len-cy. The stress falls on "vo".

What is another word for malevolency?

Close synonyms include malevolence, malice. 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 malevolency a common word?

malevolency 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.