Harmfulness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Harmful \Harm"ful\ (h[aum]rm"f[.u]l), a.
     Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful
     hazards." --Strype. --{Harm"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Harm"ful*ness},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  harmfulness
       n 1: destructiveness that causes harm or injury [syn: {injuriousness}]
       2: the quality of being noxious [syn: {noisomeness}, {noxiousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "harmfulness":
     air, badness, balefulness, banefulness, bitchiness, contamination,
     cussedness, deadliness, detrimentalness, devilment, devilry,
     deviltry, evil intent, hatefulness, health hazard, hurtfulness,
     iniquitousness, injuriousness, insalubriousness, insalubrity,
     invidiousness, lethality, maleficence, malice, malice aforethought,
     malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity,
     meanness, menace to health, mischievousness, nastiness,
     noise pollution, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness, orneriness,
     pathenogenicity, perniciousness, poisonousness, pollution,
     toxicity, unhealthfulness, unhealthiness, unsalutariness,
     unwholesomeness, venomousness, viciousness, virulence, water,
     wickedness