harmfulness

harmfulness

English

Etymology

harmful +‎ -ness

Noun

harmfulness (countable and uncountable, plural harmfulnesses)

1. The characteristic of being harmful.
   • 1922, Edith Wharton, chapter 8, in The Glimpses of the Moon:

     Once his word was pledged, he was safe: otherwise there was no limit to his capacity for wilful harmfulness.

Synonyms

• poisonousness

Antonyms

• harmlessness
• innocuousness

Translations

the characteristic of being harmful

French: nocivité (fr) f German: Schädlichkeit (de) Irish: urchóideacht f Italian: nocività f, nocevolezza f Japanese: 有害 (ja) (yūgai) Latin: nocivum Portuguese: nocividade f Romanian: nocivitate (ro) Russian: вре́дность (ru) f (vrédnostʹ) Spanish: nocividad (es) f Turkish: zararlılık

References

• harmfulness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “harmfulness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.