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harmfulness

harmfulness noun: the characteristic of being harmful.

Noun

harmfulness (countable and uncountable, plural harmfulnesses)

  1. The characteristic of being harmful.
    • Once his word was pledged, he was safe: otherwise there was no limit to his capacity for wilful harmfulness.1922, Edith Wharton, chapter 8, in The Glimpses of the Moon
    Synonyms:
    poisonousness

harmfulness meaning in Malayalam

harmfulness in Malayalam

harmfulness
ദൂഷ്യം dūṣyaṁ

Synonyms of harmfulness

Antonyms

Forms of harmfulness

pluralharmfulnesses

Origin of harmfulness

From harmful + -ness.

Questions about harmfulness

What does harmfulness mean?
Harmfulness means the characteristic of being harmful.
What is harmfulness in Malayalam?
Harmfulness in Malayalam is ദൂഷ്യം (dūṣyaṁ). See Harmfulness meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is harmfulness?
Harmfulness is a noun.
What is the plural of harmfulness?
The plural of harmfulness is harmfulnesses.

Words near harmfulness in the dictionary

  1. harmful
  2. harmfull
  3. harmfuller
  4. harmfullest
  5. harmfully
  6. harmfulness
  7. harmfulnesses
  8. Harmi
  9. harmika
  10. harmikas
  11. harmin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harmfulness (page history and authors); ദൂഷ്യം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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