wickedness (n.)

c. 1300, from wicked + -ness.

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c. 1200, extended form of earlier wick "bad, wicked, false" (12c.), which apparently is an adjectival use of Old English wicca "wizard" (see witch). Formed as if a past participle, but there is no corresponding verb. For evolution, compare wretched from wretch. Slang ironic sense of "wonderful" first attested 1920, in F. Scott Fitzgerald. As an adverb from early 15c. Related: Wickedly.

-ness

word-forming element denoting action, quality, or state, attached to an adjective or past participle to form an abstract noun, from Old English -nes(s), from Proto-Germanic *in-assu- (cognates: Old Saxon -nissi, Middle Dutch -nisse, Dutch -nis, Old High German -nissa, German -nis, Gothic -inassus), from *-in-, originally belonging to the noun stem, + *-assu-, abstract noun suffix, probably from the same root as Latin -tudo (see -tude).

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Definitions of wickedness

wickedness (n.)

morally objectionable behavior;

Synonyms: evil / immorality / iniquity

wickedness (n.)

absence of moral or spiritual values;

Synonyms: darkness / dark

wickedness (n.)

the quality of being wicked;

Synonyms: nefariousness / vileness / ugliness

wickedness (n.)

estrangement from god;

Synonyms: sin / sinfulness

wickedness (n.)

the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions;

Synonyms: loathsomeness / repulsiveness / sliminess / vileness / lousiness

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Dictionary entries near wickedness

wibble

Wicca

wich

wick

wicked

wickedness

wicker

wickerwork

wicket

widdershins

wide