Evil and Goodness

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Evil

Evil noun - That which is morally unacceptable.
Usage example: our free will allows us to choose between good and evil
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Goodness is an antonym for evil in badness topic.
Nearby Word: evilly

Goodness

Goodness noun - Conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong.
Usage example: a person of such unaffected goodness that his friends were inspired to lead better lives
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Evil is an antonym for goodness in topics: virtue, decency.
Nearby Words: good, goodly
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How words are described

human human evil human goodness
pure pure evil pure goodness
true true evil true goodness
genuine genuine evil genuine goodness
Other adjectives: sheer, actual, real, great, concentrated, little, potential, inner, inherent, pragmatic, general, extra, creepy, over-the-top.

Both words in one sentence

  • Make Up Is Evil May overlap with Beauty Equals Goodness and Evil Makes You Ugly: only evil people would need to paint, since good ones are naturally beautiful.
    Source: Make Up Is Evil
  • Contrast Holy Is Not Safe, where concentrated goodness is similarly threatening, Hijacking Cthulhu, where the "lesser" evil really does make a toy of the "greater" one, and With My Dying Breath I Summon You, where the summoner dies before the evil does anything to him.
    Source: Evil Is Not a Toy
  • Good Hurts Evil Good things had "auras" of purity or goodness that could slice and dice evil or evil-aligned beings like blades, atomize them entirely or at least leave a second or third degree burn.
    Source: Good Hurts Evil
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