"harmfulness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: harmfulnesses [plural]
Etymology: 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)
    Sense id: en-harmfulness-en-noun-l3zVwYmz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1922, Edith Wharton, chapter 8, in The Glimpses of the Moon",
          "text": "Once his word was pledged, he was safe: otherwise there was no limit to his capacity for wilful harmfulness.",
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nocivité"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "word": "Schädlichkeit"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nocività"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "nocevolezza"
        },
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "yūgai",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "word": "有害"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "word": "nocivum"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "nocividade"
        },
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "word": "nocivitate"
        },
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vrédnostʹ",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "вре́дность"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "nocividad"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
          "word": "zararlılık"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "harmfulness"
}
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      "word": "innocuousness"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nocivité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "word": "Schädlichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "urchóideacht"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "nocività"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nocevolezza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yūgai",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "word": "有害"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "word": "nocivum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nocividade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "word": "nocivitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vrédnostʹ",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вре́дность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nocividad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmful",
      "word": "zararlılık"
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