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Answer for the clue "The quality of being noxious ", 11 letters:
noxiousness

Word definitions for noxiousness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being noxious [syn: harmfulness , noisomeness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the state of being noxious

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noxious \Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. Cf. Nuisance , Necromancy .] Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting ...

Usage examples of noxiousness.

She swam with the great fish and the sea-evolved mammals and reptiles, she donned a flyer suit and cruised high above the sea with her wide wings extended alongside the dirigible creatures in the calm currents of air and the cloud layers, and she donned a full gelfield suit with a secondary AG unit and carved her way amongst the poison gases, the acid clouds and the storm bands of the upper atmosphere, surrounded by noxiousness and the ferocious beauty of the ecosystem there.

Yet the fragrance could not entirely mask the underlying noxiousness of stale cigarette smoke.