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GRIMNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something hard to endureplay

Example:

the asperity of northern winters

Synonyms:

asperity; grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)

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

sternness (the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding)

Derivation:

grim (not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being ghastlyplay

Synonyms:

ghastliness; grimness; gruesomeness; luridness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)

Derivation:

grim (shockingly repellent; inspiring horror)

grim (harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance)

grim (harshly ironic or sinister)

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