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)

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

Quotations

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 6:5:

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

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

Occitan: marridesa (oc) f, desaguici m, marridariá (oc) f

References

wickedness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
wickedness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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