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appallingness

appallingness noun: the quality of being appalling.

Noun

appallingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being appalling.
    • The appallingness of the idea of murder, the appallingness of this murder, does not shake Hamlet to his soul and does not haunt him later. The deep damnation of the taking off is felt as only one of a series of horrors.1978, Wilbur Sanders, Howard Jacobson, Shakespeare's magnanimity

appallingness meaning in Kannada

appallingness in Kannada

ಭಯಂಕರತೆ

Origin of appallingness

From appalling + -ness.

Questions about appallingness

What does appallingness mean?
Appallingness means the quality of being appalling.
What is appallingness in Kannada?
Appallingness in Kannada is ಭಯಂಕರತೆ. See Appallingness meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is appallingness?
Appallingness is a noun.

Words near appallingness in the dictionary

  1. appallers
  2. appallest
  3. appalleth
  4. appalling
  5. appallingly
  6. appallingness
  7. appallment
  8. appalls
  9. appalmed
  10. appalment
  11. appalments

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