Atrociousness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being atrocious. uncountable

    "1689, Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, The Loyalists Reasons for His Giving Obedience, and Swearing Allegiance, to the Present Government, Edinburgh: J. Reid, pp. 34-35, If there be joyned to [injustice] an other vice […] , if it be frequent and habitual, in a Person of perfect Age, all these Aggravations augment its Atrociousness."

  2. 2
    the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane wordnet

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atrocityanimalityatrocitybarbaritybarbarousnessbaseness

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"1689, Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, The Loyalists Reasons for His Giving Obedience, and Swearing Allegiance, to the Present Government, Edinburgh: J. Reid, pp. 34-35, If there be joyned to [injustice] an other vice […] , if it be frequent and habitual, in a Person of perfect Age, all these Aggravations augment its Atrociousness."

Etymology

From atrocious + -ness.

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