harmfulness

1. 1.

   destructiveness that causes harm or injury

   Synonymsinjuriousness

   Broaderdestructiveness

   Narrowerinsidiousnessvirulence
2. 2.

   the quality of being noxious

   Synonymsnoisomenessnoxiousness

   Broaderunwholesomeness

Other forms of harmfulness

plural

harmfulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about harmfulness

What does harmfulness mean?

harmfulness means "destructiveness that causes harm or injury". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in harmfulness?

harmfulness has 3 syllables: harm-ful-ness. The stress falls on "harm". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹmfəlnəs/.

What is another word for harmfulness?

Close synonyms include injuriousness, noisomeness, noxiousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is harmfulness a common word?

harmfulness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.