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Webster 1828 Edition


Harmfulness

H`ARMFULNESS

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Noun.
Hurtfulness; noxiousness.

Definition 2024


harmfulness

harmfulness

English

Noun

harmfulness (countable and uncountable, plural harmfulnesses)

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

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  • harmfulness” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
  • harmfulness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.