FromMiddle Englishbaddenes,badnes,badnesse; equivalent tobad +-ness.
badness (countable anduncountable,pluralbadnesses)
- The quality or degree of beingbad.
2015, J. M. Bernstein,Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury, page140:Thebadness 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;[…]
