harmlessness

harmless | American Dictionary

harmless
adjective
us/ˈhɑrm·ləs/
not able or likely to cause harm:
Some think television hurts children and others regard it as harmless entertainment.

Examples of harmless

harmless
They are harmless, or at least not seriously misleading, just in so far as they can be tethered ultimately to real entities.
Again, such a solution has the completely harmless consequence of generating different solmisation patterns in the two statements.
Most species do not infest fruits and are economically harmless.
Firstly, alien insects causing economic damage are more likely and more rapidly discovered than insects that are economically harmless.
Postema might argue that this case is like his harmless trespass and other harmless wrong cases, and perhaps he would be correct.
Although harmless most of the time, it can cause boils, abscesses and secondary infections in wounds.
This seemingly innocuous system for mobilizing capital prevented the accumulation of speculative funds and was, consequently, ' ' as harmless as shoe shops.
It should recognize the potential for an accumulation of small actions, each on their own perhaps quite harmless, to destabilize important natural and social systems.
In all centres it was shown to be harmless and to have no adverse effect on involution or lactation.
It appears that, if it could be done safely, it might be relatively harmless to her and to her future descendents, should there be any.
The ineffectiveness of the process renders it harmless and the earnestness of the young lovers swept along in it makes it all charming.
Disrupting this brain area using (harmless) magnetic stimulation made subjects significantly more selfish.
So in order to store them inside its body, the bombardier beetle has evolved a chemical inhibitor to make them harmless.
The plots + which merely dealt with private affairs + were humorous, harmless, always deprived of authentic social background.
However, there is also a potential danger that these properties can be easily changed via seemingly harmless syntactic manipulations!
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