harmlessness

English

Etymology

From harmless +‎ -ness.

Noun

harmlessness (usually uncountable, plural harmlessnesses)

1. The characteristic of being harmless.
   • 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 79:

     Already, at this very early date, the ritualists were moving towards the ideal of ahimsa ("harmlessness") that would become the indispensable virtue of the Indian Axial Age.

Synonyms

• innocence
• innocuity

Antonyms

• harmfulness
• nocence

Translations

the characteristic of being harmless

Finnish: vaarattomuus (fi), harmittomuus French: innocuité (fr) f German: Harmlosigkeit (de) f Hindi: अहिंसा (hi) (ahinsā) Irish: neamhurchóid f Italian: innocuità f Japanese: 無害 (ja) (mugai) Malayalam: നിരുപദ്രവത്വം (nirupadravatvaṁ) Manx: neuskielleydys m Ottoman Turkish: ضررسزلق (zararsızlık) Portuguese: inocuidade f, inofensividade f Romanian: inofensivitate (ro) Russian: безвре́дность (ru) f (bezvrédnostʹ) Sanskrit: अहिंसा (sa) f (ahiṃsā) Spanish: inocuidad (es) f Telugu: అహింస (te) (ahiṁsa) Urdu: اهنسا (ahiṅsā)