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Innocuousness

Innocuous \In*noc"u*ous\, a. [L. innocuus; in- not + nocuus hurtful, fr. nocere to hurt. See Innocent.] Harmless; producing no ill effect.

A patient, innocuous, innocent man.
--Burton. -- In*noc"u*ous*ly, adv. -- In*noc"u*ous*ness, n.

Where the salt sea innocuously breaks.
--Wordsworth.

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innocuousness

n. The condition of being innocuous

Usage examples of "innocuousness".

Nothing but the routine of border guards, the innocuousness of buried mines and the still wire.

Never any trouble As Andropov rehearsed the innocuousness of the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, the confidence that the KGB had been rightly and unavoidably fooled became the hollow laughter of the hoaxer.