Balefulness (Noun)
Meaning
The quality or nature of being harmful or evil.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The old mansion had an aura of balefulness that made everyone who entered it feel uneasy and unwelcome.
- Her balefulness was palpable, and people avoided her because of the malicious intentions that seemed to emanate from her.
- The character's balefulness was so pronounced that it dominated the entire plot of the novel, making him a compelling yet terrifying villain.
- The forest had a strange balefulness after nightfall, as if the trees themselves seemed to harbor malevolent intentions towards anyone who dared to stray too close.
- The ancient tome was said to be imbued with a dark balefulness that would bring ruin to anyone who dared to open its pages and read its forbidden knowledge.