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toxicity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun toxicity has 2 senses
- toxicity(n = noun.quantity) Array - the degree to which something is poisonous; Array is a kind of definite quantity
- toxicity(n = noun.attribute) perniciousness - grave harmfulness or deadliness; Array is a kind of morbidity, morbidness, unwholesomeness
has particulars: cytotoxicity
Derived form adjective toxic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
toxicity, n.
The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous; poisonousness. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THESAURUS
toxicity
balefulness, banefulness, communicability, contagiousness, deadliness, destructiveness, detrimentalness, harmfulness, hurtfulness, infectiousness, infectivity, injuriousness, lethality, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mischievousness, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness, perniciousness, poison, poisonousness, unhealthiness, venom, venomousness, viciousness, virulence, virulencyROGET THESAURUS
toxicity
Insalubrity
N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.
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