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)