malevolence

English

WOTD – 12 August 2006

Etymology

From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).

Noun

malevolence (countable and uncountable, plural malevolences)

1. Hostile attitude or feeling.

   to show someone malevolence

   He said it with malevolence.

2. Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.

Synonyms

• (attitude or feeling): ill-will, malice, spite

Translations

hostile feeling and attitude

• Dutch: kwaadwil m, moedwil m, booswil m, misgunst m, malevolentie f
• Finnish: pahantahtoisuus (fi)
• French: malveillance (fr) f, hostilité (fr) f
• German: Böswilligkeit f, Missgunst (de) f
• Greek: εμπάθεια (el) f (empátheia), κακοβουλία (el) f (kakovoulía), μοχθηρία (el) f (mochthiría)

  Ancient: κᾰκοθῡμίᾱ f (kakothūmíā)

• Italian: melavolenza f
• Kurdish: bedniyetî (ku) f, belakirrî (ku) f

• Latin: malevolentia f
• Polish: wrogość (pl) f
• Portuguese: malevolência
• Romanian: rea‑voință f, ostilitate (ro) f, pizmă (ro) f
• Russian: злопыха́тельство (ru) n (zlopyxátelʹstvo), недоброжела́тельность (ru) f (nedobroželátelʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: malevolencia f
• Welsh: malais (cy) m