Grimness
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The characteristic or quality of being grim. uncountable, usually
"This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness."
- 2 something hard to endure wordnet
- 3 the quality of being ghastly wordnet
Example
More examples"The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility."
Etymology
From Middle English grimnesse, from Old English grimnes (“severity, fierceness, cruelty”), equivalent to grim + -ness.
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