Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

evility

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: evil-i-ty
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state, quality or an instance of being evil.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"For as a metaphor for radical evil, the Holocaust provided a standard of evaluation for judging the evility of other threatening acts."
"Evility is the essence of being evil as goodness is the essence of being good. Evility is the sign of imperfection, but since time does not have evility, time is perfect."
"Despite the ingrown evilities I encounter, I always want to believe that everyone is innately good."
"Lightness and darkness, goodness and evility, proximity and distance; extremity it All around us in our lives and in the very naturities, orderities, functionalities, and structures of The Cosmos we know now."

Etymology

From evil + -ity.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: evil

Usage

Inflected Forms

evilities (plural)

Synonyms

evilness

Questions

What does evility mean?: The state, quality or an instance of being evil.
Where does evility come from?: From evil + -ity.

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