HARMFULNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being noxious

Synonyms:

harmfulness; noisomeness; noxiousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Meaning:

Destructiveness that causes harm or injury

Synonyms:

harmfulness; injuriousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)