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LOATHSOMENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does loathsomeness mean?
• LOATHSOMENESS (noun)
The noun LOATHSOMENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Familiarity information: LOATHSOMENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
loathsomeness; lousiness; repulsiveness; sliminess; vileness; wickedness
Context example:
the vileness of his language surprised us
Hypernyms ("loathsomeness" is a kind of...):
distastefulness; odiousness; offensiveness (the quality of being offensive)
Context examples
Every breath exhaled by that monster seemed to have clung to the place and intensified its loathsomeness.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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