harmlessness
The characteristic of being harmless.
Noun
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree English harmless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English harmlessness From harmless + -ness.