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noxiousness

noxiousness noun: the state of being noxious.

Noun

noxiousness (usually uncountable, plural noxiousnesses)

  1. (usually) the state of being noxious
    • Though she's superficial to the point of noxiousness and obsessed with amassing cultural cache, her ridiculous affectations make up for it.2007 June 8, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader
    • If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion

noxiousness meaning in Urdu and Bengali

noxiousness in Urdu

ناقص پن, تخریب, ضرررسانی

noxiousness in Bengali

অনিষ্টকারিতা, অপকারিতা

Examples of noxiousness in a sentence

  • Ripening blackberries even now loaded the bramble bushes, but the foul noxiousness of gas shells had made them uneatable.1919, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (a.k.a. Quex), Pushed and the Return Push:
  • Until that quarrel, the exceeding noxiousness of the Papal doctrine had not clearly presented itself to Mr.1916, E. Arnold Bennett, The Lion's Share:
  • Whatever he has assigned to each at the first creation, noxiousness or harmlessness, gentleness or ferocity, virtue or sin, truth or falsehood, that clings to it."1891, Frank F. Ellinwood, Oriental Religions and Christianity:
  • He only perceived a difference in the degrees of their noxiousness to Europe.1858, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2:

Forms of noxiousness

pluralnoxiousnesses

Origin of noxiousness

From noxious + -ness.

Questions about noxiousness

What does noxiousness mean?
Noxiousness means the state of being noxious.
What is noxiousness in Urdu?
Noxiousness in Urdu is ناقص پن, تخریب, ضرررسانی. See Noxiousness meaning in Urdu.
How do you use noxiousness in a sentence?
Ripening blackberries even now loaded the bramble bushes, but the foul noxiousness of gas shells had made them uneatable.
What part of speech is noxiousness?
Noxiousness is a noun.
What is the plural of noxiousness?
The plural of noxiousness is noxiousnesses.

Words near noxiousness in the dictionary

  1. noxious stimuli
  2. noxious stimulus
  3. noxious trade
  4. noxious trades
  5. noxiously
  6. noxiousness
  7. noxiousnesses
  8. noxipitiline
  9. noxiptiline
  10. Noxubee County
  11. noxytiolin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: noxiousness (page history and authors); noxiousness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); noxiousness (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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