"harmlessness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: harmlessnesses [plural]
Etymology: From harmless + -ness. Etymology templates: {{af|en|harmless|-ness}} harmless + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} harmlessness (usually uncountable, plural harmlessnesses)
  1. The characteristic of being harmless. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: innocence, innocuity Translations (the characteristic of being harmless): vaarattomuus (Finnish), harmittomuus (Finnish), innocuité [feminine] (French), Harmlosigkeit [feminine] (German), अहिंसा (ahinsā) (Hindi), neamhurchóid [feminine] (Irish), innocuità [feminine] (Italian), 無害 (mugai) (Japanese), നിരുപദ്രവത്വം (nirupadravatvaṁ) (Malayalam), neuskielleydys [masculine] (Manx), ضررسزلق (zararsızlık) (Ottoman Turkish), inocuidade [feminine] (Portuguese), inofensividade [feminine] (Portuguese), inofensivitate (Romanian), безвре́дность (bezvrédnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), अहिंसा (ahiṃsā) [feminine] (Sanskrit), inocuidad [feminine] (Spanish), అహింస (ahiṁsa) (Telugu), اهنسا (ahiṅsā) (Urdu)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
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          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
          "word": "無害"
        },
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          "lang": "Malayalam",
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          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
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          "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
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          "word": "అహింస"
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          "word": "اهنسا"
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
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      "roman": "mugai",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
      "word": "無害"
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      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "nirupadravatvaṁ",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
      "word": "നിരുപദ്രവത്വം"
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
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      "word": "neuskielleydys"
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      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "zararsızlık",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
      "word": "ضررسزلق"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "inofensividade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
      "word": "inofensivitate"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bezvrédnostʹ",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "безвре́дность"
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      "word": "अहिंसा"
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      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
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      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ahiṁsa",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
      "word": "అహింస"
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      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "ahiṅsā",
      "sense": "the characteristic of being harmless",
      "word": "اهنسا"
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