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inoffensiveness

noun

as in harmlessness

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  1. harmlessness
  2. purity
  3. morality
Noun
  • What happens, for example, when harmlessness conflicts with helping the user?
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Definition of harmlessness
Noun
  • Higher isotope purity The team also focused on Fm-257 amid growing interest in the element.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
  • But the Pilbara holds the world’s biggest reserves of iron ore—with 60% purity—the essential ingredient for making steel, and hence, for building much of our modern lives.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of purity
Noun
  • Four years ago this week, a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Jina Amini died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s compulsory hijab rules.
    — Pegah Banihashemi, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In a climate which increasingly tells people in these farmers communities that those two values are not politically aligned, sustainable farmers of faith told me that Berry validated their own sense of morality.
    — Sydney Giacalone, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of morality
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“Inoffensiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inoffensiveness. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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