Appallingness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being appalling. uncountable

    "The appallingness of the idea of murder, the appallingness of this murder, does not shake Hamlet to his soul and does not haunt him later. The deep damnation of the taking off is felt as only one of a series of horrors."

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eerinessscariness

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"The appallingness of the idea of murder, the appallingness of this murder, does not shake Hamlet to his soul and does not haunt him later. The deep damnation of the taking off is felt as only one of a series of horrors."

Etymology

From appalling + -ness.

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