Maleficence
ahd-5
noun.
The doing of harm; mischief.
noun.
Harmful or malicious nature or quality.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The character of being maleficent; the doing or producing of evil.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Evil doing, esp. to others.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
harmfulness
or
mischief
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
doing or causing evil
noun.
the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
Word Usage
"However, to understand how they explained maleficence, it is helpful to delve further into their worldview understandings."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
evil
evilness
malevolence
malignity