harmlessness

harmlessness

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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.

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