harmfulness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editharmfulness (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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editthe 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.