AWFULNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A quality of extreme unpleasantness

Synonyms:

awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)

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

frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)

Derivation:

awful (causing fear or dread or terror)

awful (exceptionally bad or displeasing)

awful (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)