maleficence
1. doing or causing evil • Ant: beneficence • Derivationally related forms: maleficent • Hypernyms: malevolence, malignity 2. the quality or nature of being harmful or evil • Syn: mischief, balefulness • Ant: beneficence • Derivationally related forms: baleful (for: balefulness), mischievous (for: mischief), maleficent • Hypernyms: evil, evilness • Attrubites: maleficent
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