| NOUN | attribute | injuriousness, harmfulness | destructiveness that causes harm or injury |
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| Meaning | destructiveness that causes harm or injury. | |
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| Synonym | harmfulness | |
| Narrower | insidiousness | Subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease) |
| virulence, virulency | extreme / extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | |
| Broader | destructiveness | The quality of causing destruction |
| Adjectives | injurious | harmful to living things |
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