Badness \Bad"ness\, n. The state of being bad.
badness n 1: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: {bad}] [ant: {good}, {good}] 2: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather [syn: {severity}] 3: an attribute of mischievous children [syn: {naughtiness}, {mischievousness}]