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Found 2 hits - Term: dangerousness, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dangerous \dan"gerous\, a. oe., haughty, difficult, dangerous,
   fr. of. dangereus, f. dangereux. see danger.
   1. attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous;
      hazardous; unsafe.
      1913 webster

            our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;
            the ways are dangerous.               --shak.
      1913 webster

            it is dangerous to assert a negative. --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
      1913 webster

            if they incline to think you dangerous
            to less than gods.                    --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. in a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with
      death. colloq. --forby. bartlett.
      1913 webster

   4. hard to suit; difficult to please. obs.
      1913 webster

            my wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
            my lord to me is hard and dangerous.  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   5. reserved; not affable. obs. "of his speech dangerous."
      --chaucer. -- dan"gerously, adv. --
      dan"gerousness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
danger dan"gerously dan"gerousness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
dangerousness
     n : the quality of not being safe ant: safeness
see also:
safeness 

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