"insidiousness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: insidiousnesses [plural]
Etymology: From insidious + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|insidious|ness}} insidious + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} insidiousness (usually uncountable, plural insidiousnesses)
  1. A surreptitious harmfulness, quality of entrapment, or treacherousness; the characteristic of being insidious. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (the characteristic of being insidious): коварство (kovarstvo) (Bulgarian)

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