Harm vs Harmfulness - What's the difference?
harm | harmfulness |
Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
* , chapter=13
, title= That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
* (William Shakespeare)
The characteristic of being harmful.
*1922 , , The Glimpses of the Moon , ch. 8,
*:Once his word was pledged, he was safe: otherwise there was no limit to his capacity for wilful harmfulness .
As a proper noun harm
is , low german, derived from herman, meaning "army man".As a noun harmfulness is
the characteristic of being harmful.harm
English
(wikipedia harm)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
- We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms .