Usually means: Causing harm or doing evil.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word maleficence:

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  1. maleficence: Merriam-Webster
  2. maleficence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maleficence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maleficence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maleficence: Vocabulary.com
  6. maleficence: Wordnik
  7. maleficence: Wiktionary
  8. maleficence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. maleficence: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Maleficence, maleficence: Dictionary.com
  11. Maleficence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. maleficence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. maleficence: Rhymezone
  14. Maleficence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. maleficence: FreeDictionary.org
  16. maleficence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. maleficence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maleficence: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (maleficence)

▸ noun:  harmfulness or mischief.

Similar:
mischief, balefulness, maleficience, malevolency, malice, malicious mischief, evil, maleffect, malintent, malice in fact, more...

Opposite:
beneficence, benevolence, altruism

Adjectives:
non, anti, secret, established, climatic, deliberate, perverse, unalloyed, pure

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Similar:
mischief, balefulness, maleficience, malevolency, malice, malicious mischief, evil, maleffect, malintent, malice in fact, more...

Opposite:
beneficence, benevolence, altruism

Adjectives:
non, anti, secret, established, climatic, deliberate, perverse, unalloyed, pure



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