The difference between Corruption and Evil

When used as nouns, corruption means the act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle, whereas evil means moral badness.

Evil is also adjective with the meaning: intending to harm.

check bellow for the other definitions of Corruption and Evil

  1. Corruption as a noun:

    The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

  2. Corruption as a noun:

    The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

  3. Corruption as a noun:

    The product of corruption; putrid matter.

  4. Corruption as a noun:

    The decomposition of biological matter.

  5. Corruption as a noun:

    The seeking of bribes.

  6. Corruption as a noun (computing):

    The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

  7. Corruption as a noun:

    The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct

    Examples:

    "a corruption of style"

    "corruption in language"

  8. Corruption as a noun (linguistics):

    A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.

  9. Corruption as a noun:

    Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.

  1. Evil as an adjective:

    Intending to harm; malevolent.

    Examples:

    "an evil plot to kill innocent people"

  2. Evil as an adjective:

    Morally corrupt.

    Examples:

    "Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?"

  3. Evil as an adjective:

    Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

  4. Evil as an adjective:

    Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

  5. Evil as an adjective (obsolete):

    Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

    Examples:

    "an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop"

  6. Evil as an adjective (computing, programming, slang):

    undesirable; harmful; bad practice

    Examples:

    "Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way."

  1. Evil as a noun:

    Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

    Examples:

    "The evils of society include murder and theft."

    "'Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control."

  2. Evil as a noun:

    Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm.

  3. Evil as a noun (obsolete):

    A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

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