horriblenessn.
/ˈhɒrᵻblnəs/, U.S. /ˈhɔrəb(ə)lnəs/ 1. The quality of being horrible; shocking repulsiveness; dreadfulness, hideousness.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [noun]
horribility13..
grisliness1340
gastfulness1398
horribleness1398
grisliheada1400
hidoustyc1420
hidour1422
ugliness1587
ghastliness1591
horridnessa1631
horriditya1641
frightfulness1713
gruesomeness1886
macabrec1920
the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > emotion compounded of fear and loathing > [noun] > quality of being horrible
horror1382
horribleness1398
horridnessa1631
horriditya1641
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xx As it faryth in the taast of an aloe and other that ben passynge bytter, for by her horryblenes therof the taast is sore greuyd.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 69 None might endure to loke theron for orribelnesse.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxx. 560 To make him knowe the horriblenesse of his sinne.
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 409 You do not rightly apprehend the horribleness of the Massacre.
1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 198 A bite from a mad dog is more dreaded..from the horribleness of the disease.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > emotion compounded of fear and loathing > [noun]
horror1382
horribleness1398
horringc1568
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > [noun] > horror
grislea1225
grising?c1225
uga1240
hidourc1315
ugginga1325
uglinessc1325
horror1382
grisness1398
horribleness1398
hideousnessa1425
hideousshipc1430
ugrinessc1480
horringc1568
horrorie1600
phobia1786
horrification1801
aghastness1845
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) (1495) viii. xxxi [An eclipse] smyteþ in men and beestes many maner feere and horriblenesse [L. timoris et horroris].
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) (1495) ix. xxv Nyȝt of it silfe greueþe in horriblenes and feere.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xi. 78 b By horriblenesse of spirite, and by trouble of minde.
1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes iii. f. 108 Although it bee taken, it maketh not any horriblenesse, as the other Balsomo dooeth.
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