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grotesquenesses

grotesquenesses is the plural of grotesqueness.

Meaning of grotesqueness

Noun

grotesqueness (countable and uncountable, plural grotesquenesses)

  1. Synonym of grotesquerie, the quality of being grotesque.
    • She was aware of a perverse flicker of thought in herself: If this idea did, somehow, have legs (which it almost certainly did not – it was crazy, maybe illegal, unsavory to the point of grotesqueness), then she’d want to get a real writer on it.2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011), page 137
    Synonyms:
    grotesquerie

Questions about grotesquenesses

What is grotesquenesses the plural of?
Grotesquenesses is the plural of grotesqueness.

Words near grotesquenesses in the dictionary

  1. grotesque
  2. grotesqued
  3. grotesqueing
  4. grotesquely
  5. grotesqueness
  6. grotesquenesses
  7. grotesquer
  8. grotesquerie
  9. grotesqueries
  10. grotesquery
  11. grotesques

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