noxiousness
State of being harmful
Noxiousness is the quality of being harmful, poisonous, or injurious.
The term applies to physical dangers like toxic fumes or contaminated water, but extends to anything corrupting or unwholesome: the noxiousness of the propaganda, the sheer noxiousness of the smell.
It emphasizes not just unpleasantness but actual capacity for damage.
Capable of causing death
- venomousProducing injected toxins
- lethalCausing or capable of death
- harmfulCausing damage or injury
- toxicCapable of causing harm
carcinogenic · deadly · virulent · baneful · pernicious · malignant · cytotoxic · neurotoxic
Causing loss or injury
- destructiveCausing severe harm
- adverseHarmful or opposed
- detrimentalCausing harm or damage
- injuriousCausing physical harm
debilitating · ruinous · pernicious · deleterious · degrading · impairing · corrupting · undermining
Introduction of impurities
- smogSunlight-activated urban pollution
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- fumesAirborne chemical irritants
- effluentDischarged liquid waste
particulates · exhaust · sewage · waste · acid rain · pesticides · toxic runoff · chemical spill
State of being bothered
- vexationFrustrated annoyance
- discomfortMild physical or mental distress
- aggravationState of being vexed
- bothersomeCausing mild annoyance
offensive · repugnant · unpleasant · disagreeable · objectionable · irksome · troublesome · foulness
poisonous
Capable of causing death
toxic · carcinogenic · deadly · virulent · baneful · pernicious · malignant · cytotoxic · neurotoxic · hazardous
damaging
Causing loss or injury
- destructiveCausing severe harm
- adverseHarmful or opposed
- detrimentalCausing harm or damage
injurious · debilitating · ruinous · pernicious · deleterious · degrading · impairing · corrupting · undermining · unwholesome
contamination
Introduction of impurities
- smogSunlight-activated urban pollution
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- fumesAirborne chemical irritants
effluent · particulates · exhaust · sewage · waste · acid rain · pesticides · toxic runoff · chemical spill · air quality
annoyance
State of being bothered
- vexationFrustrated annoyance
- discomfortMild physical or mental distress
- aggravationState of being vexed
bothersome · offensive · repugnant · unpleasant · disagreeable · objectionable · irksome · troublesome · foulness · rankness
noxiousnessharmlessness
Inability to cause damage
innocuousness · healthfulness · wholesomeness · safety · salubriousness
noxiousnesswholesomeness
Quality of being good
healthiness · purity · salubrity · goodness · cleanliness
noxiousnesswholesomeness
Quality of being good
benignity · virtuousness · uprightness · goodness · constructiveness