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harmfulness

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harm·ful  (härmfl)
adj.
Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
harmful·ly adv.
harmful·ness n.
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Noun1.harmfulness - destructiveness that causes harm or injury
injuriousness
destructiveness - the quality of causing destruction
insidiousness - subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease)
virulence, virulency - extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); "the virulence of the plague"
2.harmfulness - the quality of being noxious
noisomeness, noxiousness
unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
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The talk continued on the same subject for a long time--the harmfulness of a household dividing up--and it was clearly not an abstract discussion but concerned the question of a separation in that house; a separation demanded by the second son who sat there morosely silent.
Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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