Harmlessness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic of being harmless. uncountable, usually

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From harmless + -ness.

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