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AWFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quality of extreme unpleasantness
Synonyms:
awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("awfulness" is a kind of...):
unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "awfulness"):
frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)
Derivation:
awful (causing fear or dread or terror)
awful (exceptionally bad or displeasing)
awful (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)
