Origin: Germanic Old English suffix
Badness has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
"The sheer badness of that storm made everyone rush inside to avoid getting soaked."
an attribute of mischievous children
"The teacher sighed as she watched the badness of her third-grade class turn the library into chaos within minutes."
The quality or degree of being bad.
"The sheer badness of that movie was so intense I couldn't even look at my phone for an hour while it played."