Word Study
grimness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun grimness has 2 senses
- grimness(n = noun.attribute) ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness - the quality of being ghastly; Array is a kind of frightfulness
- grimness(n = noun.attribute) asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" is a kind of difficultness, difficulty
Derived forms adjective grim2, adjective grim4, adjective grim3
has particulars: sternness
Derived form adjective grim1
CIDE DICTIONARY
grimness, n. [AS. grimnes.].
Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness. [1913 Webster]
For further exploring for "grimness" in Webster Dictionary Online
