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RISKLESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does risklessness mean?
• RISKLESSNESS (noun)
The noun RISKLESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. safety as a consequence of entailing no risk
Familiarity information: RISKLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Safety as a consequence of entailing no risk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("risklessness" is a kind of...):
safety (the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions)
Derivation:
riskless (thought to be devoid of risk)
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