Dictionary

evility en · NOUN

Etymology

From evil + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state, quality or an instance of being evil.
   • Evility is the essence of being evil as goodness is the essence of being good. Evility is the sign of imperfection, but since time does not have evility, time is perfect. 2007 September 14, Adam Rutherford, Illusionary Existence, Genesis, and Other Miscellaneous Works, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 82:
   • Lightness and darkness, goodness and evility, proximity and distance; extremity it All around us in our lives and in the very naturities, orderities, functionalities, and structures of The Cosmos we know now. 2019 April 28, Elizabeth Corning, An Overview of Astronism, Wiseman Publishers, page 326:
   • Despite the ingrown evilities I encounter, I always want to believe that everyone is innately good. 2015 December 7, Nancy Louise Lewis, Daisies Don't Lie: Misadventures in Journalism: The Making of a Feminist, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 68:
   • For as a metaphor for radical evil, the Holocaust provided a standard of evaluation for judging the evility of other threatening acts. 2006, Jeffrey C. Alexander, The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 75:

Forms

Synonyms

evilness