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loathsomenesses

loathsomenesses is the plural of loathsomeness.

Meaning of loathsomeness

Noun

loathsomeness (countable and uncountable, plural loathsomenesses)

  1. (uncountable) The nature or property that gives rise to revulsion or inspires loathing.
    • For my part I would rather counſell you to deſtroy your Rattes and Miſe with Traps, Banes, or Weeſels: for beſides the ſluttiſhneſſe ⁊ lothſomeneſſe of the Catte (you know what ſhe layes in the Malt heape) ſhe is moſt daungerous and pernicious among children, as I mee ſelf haue had good experience.1577, Conradus Heresbachius [i.e., Konrad Heresbach], compiler, “The Third Booke, of Feeding, Breeding, and Curing of Cattell”, in Barnabe Googe, transl., Fovre Bookes of Husbandry, […]: Conteyning...
  2. (countable) A loathsome thing.
    • H. P. Lovecraft
      After it raced the naked, tittering, phosphorescent thing that belonged on the carven pedestal, and still farther behind panted the dark men, and all the dread crew of sentient loathsomenesses. The corpse was gaining on its pursuers …

Questions about loathsomenesses

What is loathsomenesses the plural of?
Loathsomenesses is the plural of loathsomeness.

Words near loathsomenesses in the dictionary

  1. loathness
  2. loaths
  3. loathsome
  4. loathsomely
  5. loathsomeness
  6. loathsomenesses
  7. loathy
  8. Loatuko
  9. loave
  10. loaved
  11. loaver

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