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Keep "horrificness" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "horrificness" intact in the sentence you are editing.
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
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After choosing a replacement for "horrificness", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "horrificness" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
3 total sentences available.
Everything is absolutely still, air and water are stagnant. A large Dytiscus beetle rises to the surface to breathe and every now and then large bubbles of marsh gas come sailing majestically up from the depth and explode quietly into the fetid air. The horrificness of this place impressed me even when I was intent only on fishing there for bugs and efts. Now, seen in retrospect, it haunts me.
Source: wiktionary
I suppose the last thing someone in my nervous state needed was caffeine, but that didn’t stop me from hitting the ’Bucks with Madison and Paige before school the next morning for a soothing Chai latte. Something told me that was the only soothing I’d be having, at least until stolen-paper-culprit had been identified and the horrificness had been resolved.
Source: wiktionary
I lay there, momentarily shell-shocked as, hungover and jet-lagged, I tried to remember what I was doing today. Something important. Lurching bolt upright, the room spinning in all its lilac horrificness, I remembered Tioman, and the flight that was booked – the daily flight, the only flight.
Source: wiktionary
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