Grotesqueness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic or quality of being grotesque. countable, uncountable

    "She was aware of a perverse flicker of thought in herself: If this idea did, somehow, have legs (which it almost certainly did not – it was crazy, maybe illegal, unsavory to the point of grotesqueness), then she’d want to get a real writer on it."

  2. 2
    ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion wordnet

Synonyms

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absurditydeformitygrotesqueriegrotesquerymalformationmonstrosity

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"She was aware of a perverse flicker of thought in herself: If this idea did, somehow, have legs (which it almost certainly did not – it was crazy, maybe illegal, unsavory to the point of grotesqueness), then she’d want to get a real writer on it."

Etymology

From grotesque + -ness.

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