HARMFULNESS

harmfulness, noisomeness, noxiousness

(noun) the quality of being noxious

harmfulness, injuriousness

(noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

harmfulness (countable and uncountable, plural harmfulnesses)

The characteristic of being harmful.

Synonyms

• poisonousness

Antonyms

• harmlessness

• innocuousness

Source: Wiktionary



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