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countable and uncountable, plural badnesses
The quality or degree of being bad. quotations examples
The badness of a dignitary harm derives from the victim's belief that a perpetrator is willing to override or ignore her standing as a person with rights, with dignity, as evidenced by the wrongful criminal deed; […]
2015, J. M. Bernstein, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury, page 140