harmlessness
nounEtymology From harmless + -ness.
1
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.2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 79:
- Antonyms
- harmfulness, nocence