harmfulness

English

Etymology

harmful +‎ -ness

Noun

harmfulness (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.

Synonyms

poisonousness

Antonyms

Translations

the characteristic of being harmful

French: nocivité (fr) f
German: Schädlichkeit
Irish: urchóideacht f
Italian: nocività f
Japanese: 有害 (ja) (yūgai)

Latin: nocivum
Portuguese: nocividade f
Romanian: nocivitate (ro)
Russian: вре́дность (ru) f (vrédnostʹ)
Spanish: nocividad (es) f

References

harmfulness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
“harmfulness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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