In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
evil, evilness
(noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; “attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
evilness (countable and uncountable, plural evilnesses)
The quality or state of being evil.
• badness
• viciousness
• malignity
• vileness
• liveness, veinless, vileness, vineless
Source: Wiktionary
E"vil*ness, n.
Definition: The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.