harmfulness

English

Noun

harmfulness (uncountable)

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

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

References

• “harmfulness” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “harmfulness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.