aghastnessn.
/əˈɡɑːstnəs/, /əˈɡastnəs/, U.S. /əˈɡæstnəs/ The state of being aghast; horror.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > [noun] > horror
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1845 Boston Investigator 27 Aug. We would give the price of a ticket to ‘a 19th century popular lecture’, to see one of those old Dutch loggerheads revived, a la Rip Van Winkle, and to witness his ‘stolid aghastness’ at the said spectacle.
1881 Punch 14 May 221 Mrs. Vamp..threw the needful expression of hollow aghastness into her eyes.
1925 E. von Arnim Love i. x. 91 Aghast and horrified, Catherine continued to have the top of her head kissed, and her aghastness and horror became overwhelming.
2010 Independent (Nexis) 2 Sept. 8 That would leave some people aghast..but other people's aghastness is something that Mr Blair has acquired a taste for.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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