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harmfulness vs virulency

virulency vs harmfulness

harmfulness and virulency both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
harmfulness Yes No No No
virulency Yes No No No
As nouns, virulency is a hyponym of harmfulness; that is, virulency is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than harmfulness:
  • harmfulness: destructiveness that causes harm or injury
  • virulency: extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
Other hyponyms of harmfulness include insidiousness, virulence, ruinousness.
harmfulness (noun) virulency (noun)
destructiveness that causes harm or injury extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
the quality of being noxious extreme hostility
Difference between harmfulness and virulency

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