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HARMFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being noxious
Synonyms:
harmfulness; noisomeness; noxiousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("harmfulness" is a kind of...):
morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Destructiveness that causes harm or injury
Synonyms:
harmfulness; injuriousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("harmfulness" is a kind of...):
destructiveness (the quality of causing destruction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harmfulness"):
insidiousness (subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease))
virulence; virulency (extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease))
Derivation:
harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)
