harmfulness

English

Etymology

From 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.