malevolence

English

WOTD – 12 August 2006

From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).

malevolence (countable and uncountable, plural malevolences)

Hostile attitude or feeling.
to show someone malevolence

He said it with malevolence.
Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.

hostile feeling and attitude

Armenian: չարակամություն (hy) (čʿarakamutʿyun)
Belarusian: варожасць f (varóžascʹ), нядобразычлівасць f (njadóbrazyčlivascʹ)
Dutch: kwaadwil m, moedwil (nl) m, booswil m, misgunst m, malevolentie f
Finnish: pahantahtoisuus (fi)
French: malveillance (fr) f, hostilité (fr) f
German: Böswilligkeit f, Missgunst (de) f
Greek: εμπάθεια (el) f (empátheia), κακοβουλία (el) f (kakovoulía), μοχθηρία (el) f (mochthiría)
Ancient: κᾰκοθῡμίᾱ f (kakothūmíā)
Italian: malevolenza (it) f

Kurdish: bedniyetî (ku) f, belakirrî (ku) f
Latin: malevolentia f
Polish: wrogość (pl) f, złowrogość (pl) f
Portuguese: malevolência
Romanian: rea‑voință f, ostilitate (ro) f, pizmă (ro) f
Russian: злопыха́тельство (ru) n (zlopyxátelʹstvo), недоброжела́тельность (ru) f (nedobroželátelʹnostʹ), вражде́бность (ru) f (vraždébnostʹ)
Spanish: malevolencia f
Welsh: malais (cy) m

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