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Noun: maleficence  mu'le-fi-sun(t)s
  1. Doing or causing evil
     
  2. The quality or nature of being harmful or evil
    - mischief, balefulness

Derived forms: maleficences

See also: maleficent

Type of: evil, evilness, malevolence, malignity

Antonym: beneficence

Nearest

male sibling
maleate
maleberry
Malebranche
Malecite
maledict
malediction
malefaction
malefactor
malefic
maleficence
maleficent
maleic acid
malemute
maleness
maleo
male-patterned baldness
Maleseet
Malevich
malevolence
malevolency