"harmfulness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: harmfulnesses [plural]
Etymology: From harmful + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|harmful|ness}} harmful + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} harmfulness (countable and uncountable, plural harmfulnesses)
  1. The characteristic of being harmful. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: poisonousness Translations (the characteristic of being harmful): nocivité [feminine] (French), Schädlichkeit (German), urchóideacht [feminine] (Irish), nocività [feminine] (Italian), nocevolezza [feminine] (Italian), 有害 (yūgai) (Japanese), nocivum (Latin), nocividade [feminine] (Portuguese), nocivitate (Romanian), вре́дность (vrédnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), nocividad [feminine] (Spanish), zararlılık (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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      "word": "urchóideacht"
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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    },
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "word": "有害"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "word": "nocivum"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "word": "nocivitate"
    },
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
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    },
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