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Debauchery vs Maliciousness - What's the difference?

debauchery | maliciousness |

As nouns the difference between debauchery and maliciousness

is that debauchery is indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition while maliciousness is the condition of being malicious; malevolence or malice.

debauchery

English

Noun

(debaucheries)
  • Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
  • (archaic) Seduction from duty.

    • Synonyms

    * licentiousness

    Related terms

    * debauch * debauchee * debaucher * debaucherous * debauched

    References

    * Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997) * WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University) ;

    maliciousness

    English

    Noun

  • The condition of being malicious; malevolence or malice