badness

Etymology

bad + -ness

noun

  1. The quality or degree of being bad.
    The badness of a dignitary harm derives from the victim's belief that a perpetrator is willing to override or ignore her standing as a person with rights, with dignity, as evidenced by the wrongful criminal deed; […] 2015, J. M. Bernstein, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury, page 140

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