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HORRIDNESS
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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 ("horridness" is a kind of...):
unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horridness"):
frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)
Derivation:
horrid (exceedingly bad)
horrid (grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror)
