HARMFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harmfulness mean? 

• HARMFULNESS (noun)
  The noun HARMFULNESS has 2 senses:

1. destructiveness that causes harm or injury

2. the quality of being noxious

  Familiarity information: HARMFULNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARMFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destructiveness that causes harm or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

harmfulness; injuriousness

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being noxious

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

harmfulness; noisomeness; noxiousness

Hypernyms ("harmfulness" is a kind of...):

morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)