Definition of "malevolence"

malevolence

/məˈlɛvələns/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural malevolences
1. Hostile attitude or feeling.
  Quotations
  Esai Morales appears as the enforcer for “the entity‘’ and brings such simmering malevolence to the character that he should have been the villain instead.
  2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club‎
2. Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.