maleficence
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
doing or causing evil
Types & categories
- malevolence hypernym
Related & opposite
- beneficence antonym
- maleficent derivation
Sense 2 noun
the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
Types & categories
- evilness hypernym
Related & opposite
- beneficence antonym
- maleficent attribute
- ominous derivation
- maleficent derivation
- baleful derivation
- mischievous derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | beneficence |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | maleficent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | malevolence |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | beneficence |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | maleficent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ominous |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | maleficent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | baleful |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mischievous |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | evilness |