HIDEOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hideousness mean? 

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

1. dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIDEOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

ugliness (qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses)

Derivation:

hideous (so extremely ugly as to be terrifying)

 Context examples 

I had sagacity enough to discover that the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome yet appalling hideousness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)