dangerousness
險;危險
Dan·ger·ous a.
1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us;
The ways are dangerous. --Shak.
It is dangerous to assert a negative. --Macaulay.
2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerous
To less than gods. --Milton.
3. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.]
4. Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small;
My lord to me is hard and dangerous. --Chaucer.
5. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] “Of his speech dangerous.”
-- Dan*ger*ous*ly, adv. -- Dan*ger*ous*ness, n.
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dangerousness
n : the quality of not being safe [ant: safeness]