innocuousness
Quality of harmlessness
Innocuousness is the quality of being harmless or unlikely to cause offense.
The word often implies something so bland or inoffensive that it barely registers: The innocuousness of the comment made it forgettable.
It can suggest deliberate mildness—designed not to provoke: The memo's innocuousness was clearly strategic.
Causing no injury
- nonthreateningCausing no alarm
- benignNot harmful or threatening
- inoffensiveCausing no displeasure
- unobjectionableCausing no disapproval
unoffending · undamaging · unhazardous · safe · blamelessness · guiltlessness · nonlethal · nontoxic
State without peril
- protectionGuarding against harm
- securityProtection from threat
- nonhazardousPosing no risk
- risklessFree from peril
unthreatening · precaution · welfare · well-being · shielding · immunity · sanctuary · refuge
Lacking distinctive qualities
anodyne · insipid · tepid · lukewarm · weak · faint · muted · understated
Standard, unremarkable
- unassumingNot making claims
- inconspicuousNot readily noticed
- nondescriptWithout distinguishing qualities
- forgettableUnlikely to be recalled
unmemorable · unnoticeable · plain · commonplace · mundane · unexciting · dull · unremarkable
harmless
Causing no injury
- nonthreateningCausing no alarm
- benignNot harmful or threatening
- inoffensiveCausing no displeasure
unobjectionable · unoffending · undamaging · unhazardous · safe · blamelessness · guiltlessness · nonlethal · nontoxic · benignity
safeness
State without peril
- protectionGuarding against harm
- securityProtection from threat
- nonhazardousPosing no risk
riskless · unthreatening · precaution · welfare · well-being · shielding · immunity · sanctuary · refuge · preservation
bland
Lacking distinctive qualities
subtle · anodyne · insipid · tepid · lukewarm · weak · faint · muted · understated · unobtrusive
ordinary
Standard, unremarkable
- unassumingNot making claims
- inconspicuousNot readily noticed
- nondescriptWithout distinguishing qualities
forgettable · unmemorable · unnoticeable · plain · commonplace · mundane · unexciting · dull · unremarkable · uncontroversial
innocuousnessharmfulness
Capacity to cause damage
dangerousness · noxiousness · toxicity · lethality · destructiveness
innocuousnessmenace
Source of potential harm
ominousness · scariness · intimidation · dangerousness · formidability
innocuousnessoffensiveness
Quality of causing affront
objectionableness · obnoxiousness · provocativeness · outrageousness · repugnance
innocent, innocence, noxious, innocuous, innocently, innocuously