badness

noun

Etymology: From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad + -ness.

1. The quality or degree of being bad.

   “The badness 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; […]”

   “It is easy to assess whether a sentence is acceptable or not: This is just how “good” or “natural” the sentence sounds to a group of fluent speakers of a language. The assessment that the badness is likely due to the grammar is a more complex inference.”