wickedness

English

Etymology

From Middle English wickednes, wikkednes, wikkednesse, wikednesse, equivalent to wicked +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkɪdnəs/

Noun

wickedness (countable and uncountable, plural wickednesses)

1. The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 227d.

     We speak of wickedness as something in the soul different from virtue.

2. A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.

Quotations

• Template:RQ:Authorized Version

  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Translations

state of being wicked

• Finnish: pahuus (fi)
• French: méchanceté (fr) f, perversité (fr) f
• German: Bosheit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: πονηρία f (ponēría)

• Hebrew: רִשְׁעוּת f
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• Irish: áibhirseoireacht f, coireacht f, colaí f, díchúis f, lochtaíl f, mallaitheacht f, urchóideacht f
• Lao: ຄວາມຊົ່ວ (khuām sūa)
• Occitan: marridesa (oc) f, aulesa (oc) f, malícia f, perversitat (oc) f, malesa f, malor f, emmaliment m, marridariá (oc) f
• Romanian: răutate (ro) f, perversitate (ro) f, ticăloșie (ro) f
• Spanish: maldad (es) f, perversidad (es) f

wicked thing

• Dutch: boosheid (nl) f
• French: iniquité (fr) f, méchanceté (fr) f, mauvaise action (fr) f
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• Occitan: marridesa (oc) f, desaguici m, marridariá (oc) f

References

• “wickedness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “wickedness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.