Balefulness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or quality of being baleful.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being baleful.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The characteristic of being baleful.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
  • Word Usage
    "Here the technique of under-describing, withholding, comes startlingly to the fore, that other great technique for communicating balefulness."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    evil  evilness  
    verb-stem
    bale