TERRIBLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does terribleness mean? 

• TERRIBLENESS (noun)
  The noun TERRIBLENESS has 1 sense:

1. a quality of extreme unpleasantness

  Familiarity information: TERRIBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERRIBLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quality of extreme unpleasantness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness

Hypernyms ("terribleness" is a kind of...):

unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "terribleness"):

frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)

Derivation:

terrible (causing fear or dread or terror)

terrible (exceptionally bad or displeasing)

terrible (intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality)

terrible (extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact)