noun
Meaning 1
The state or quality of being dangerous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dangerousness
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
the quality of not being safe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: safeness
Broader terms: characteristic
Narrower terms: precariousness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English dangerous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English dangerousness From dangerous + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: վտանգավորություն (vtangavorutʻyun) — state or quality of being dangerous
- Catalan: perillositat — state or quality of being dangerous
- Dutch: gevaarlijkheid — state or quality of being dangerous
- Finnish: vaarallisuus — state or quality of being dangerous
- French: dangerosité — state or quality of being dangerous
- Galician: perigosidade — state or quality of being dangerous
- German: Gefährlichkeit — state or quality of being dangerous
- Italian: pericolosità — state or quality of being dangerous
- Polish: niebezpieczność — state or quality of being dangerous
- Portuguese: perigosidade — state or quality of being dangerous
- Portuguese: periculosidade — state or quality of being dangerous
- Russian: опа́сность (opásnostʹ) — state or quality of being dangerous
- Spanish: peligrosidad — state or quality of being dangerous
- Turkish: tehlikelilik — state or quality of being dangerous