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harmlessness

noun

Etymology

From harmless + -ness.

  1. inherited from *harmalausaz✻
  2. inherited from *hearmlēas✻
  3. inherited from harmles
  4. formed as harmlessness — “harmless + -ness”

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA