harmfulness
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
harmfulness (countable and uncountable, plural harmfulnesses)
- 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.
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the characteristic of being harmful
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References edit
- harmfulness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “harmfulness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.