"badness" in the noun sense
1. bad, badness
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
"take the bad with the good"
2. badness, severity, severeness
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
3. naughtiness, mischievousness, badness
an attribute of mischievous children
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