Dictionary Definition
malevolence
Noun
1 wishing evil to others [syn: malignity] [ant: benevolence]
2 the quality of threatening evil [syn: malevolency, malice]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- Hostile attitude or
feeling.
- To show someone malevolence.
- He said it with malevolence.
- To show someone malevolence.
- Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.
Translations
hostile feeling and attitude
- Finnish: pahantahtoisuus
- German: Böswilligkeit , Missgunst
- Italian: melavolenza
- Kurdish: bedniyetî , belakirrî
- Latin: malevolentia
- Polish: wrogość
- Spanish: malevolencia
Extensive Definition
Malevolence may refer to:
- Malice, Sadism, or Evil.
- Malevolence (film), a 2005 film by Stevan Mena
- Malevolence (band), a heavy metal band
- Malevolence (Marvel cosmic being), a cosmic being from the Marvel Universe
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, antagonism, anti-Semitism,
antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bad
temper, bad will, badness, belligerence, bigotry, blighting glance,
clash, clashing, collision, conflict, contention, damnability, despite, despitefulness, detestation, dislike, evil disposition, evil
eye, evilness, execration, friction, grudge, hate, hatred, hostility, ill nature, ill
will, ill-disposedness, improperness, inaccuracy, inauspiciousness,
inexpedience,
inferiority,
invalidity, loathing, malice, maliciousness, malignity, malocchio, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, moral badness,
odium, peccancy, quarrelsomeness, race
hatred, racism, reprehensibility,
repugnance, spite, spitefulness, spleen, unfavorableness,
unhealthiness,
unkindness, unpleasantness, unskillfulness, vials of
hate, vials of wrath, viciousness, whammy, wickedness, xenophobia