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awfulness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun awfulness has 1 sense
- awfulness(n = noun.attribute) dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness - a quality of extreme unpleasantness; Array is a kind of unpleasantness
has particulars: frightfulness
Derived forms adjective awful2, adjective awful1, adjective awful3
CIDE DICTIONARY
awfulness, n.
- The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. [1913 Webster]"The awfulness of grandeur." [1913 Webster]
- The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. [1913 Webster]"Producing in us reverence and awfulness." [1913 Webster]
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