Usually means: Causing hurt through words, actions.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. offensiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. offensiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. offensiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. offensiveness: Vocabulary.com
  5. offensiveness: Wordnik
  6. offensiveness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. offensiveness: Wiktionary
  8. offensiveness: Dictionary.com
  9. Offensiveness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. offensiveness: Rhymezone
  11. offensiveness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. offensiveness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. offensiveness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. offensiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. offensiveness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. offensiveness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality of being offensive.

Similar:
odiousness, distastefulness, offendedness, offensivity, insultingness, outrageousness, objectionability, objectionableness, affrontiveness, offness, more...

Opposite:
innocuous, inoffensive, unobjectionable, harmless, benign

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Similar:
odiousness, distastefulness, offendedness, offensivity, insultingness, outrageousness, objectionability, objectionableness, affrontiveness, offness, more...

Opposite:
innocuous, inoffensive, unobjectionable, harmless, benign



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