harmlessness

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harmlessness

noun harmlessnesses

  1. uncountable, usually The characteristic of being harmless. 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.

    Similar: innocence, innocuity

Opposite: harmfulness, nocence

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noun

Opposite: harmfulness, nocence

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noun the characteristic of being harmless

Españolinocuidad
日本語無害 mugai
हिन्दीअहिंसा ahinsā
Portuguêsinocuidade, inofensividade
Françaisinnocuité
DeutschHarmlosigkeit
Italianoinnocuità
Românăinofensivitate
Русскийбезвре́дность bezvrédnostʹ

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@misc{harmlessness_2026,
  title = {harmlessness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/harmlessness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}