malevolence
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
wishing evil to others
Types & categories
- hate hypernym
- maleficence hyponym
- malice hyponym
- vindictiveness hyponym
Related & opposite
- benevolence antonym
- malevolent derivation
Sense 2 noun
the quality of threatening evil
Types & categories
- evilness hypernym
- cattiness hyponym
- cruelness hyponym
- beastliness hyponym
Related & opposite
- malefic derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | benevolence |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | malevolent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | maleficence |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | malice |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | vindictiveness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | malefic |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | evilness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cattiness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cruelness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | beastliness |