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Harmfulness vs Criticality - What's the difference?

harmfulness | criticality |

As nouns the difference between harmfulness and criticality

is that harmfulness is the characteristic of being harmful while criticality is the state of being critical.

harmfulness

English

Noun

(-)
  • 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 .

    • Synonyms

    * poisonousness

    Antonyms

    * harmlessness * innocuousness

    References

    * *

    criticality

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia criticality) (criticalities)
  • The state of being critical
  • (education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.
  • (physics) The point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining

    • Related terms

    * criticalness

    Derived terms

    * criticality accident * criticality matrix * dry criticality * wet criticality * recriticality