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