Hideousness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being hideous; extreme ugliness countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness wordnet

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atrocitydeformityeerinessmonstrosityscariness

Etymology

From Middle English hidousnes, hidousnesse, hidowesnesse, hydousnes, hydousnesse, hydusnes; equivalent to hideous + -ness.

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