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FRIGHTFULNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frightfulness mean?
• FRIGHTFULNESS (noun)
The noun FRIGHTFULNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being frightful
Familiarity information: FRIGHTFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being frightful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("frightfulness" is a kind of...):
awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness (a quality of extreme unpleasantness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frightfulness"):
ghastliness; grimness; gruesomeness; luridness (the quality of being ghastly)
Derivation:
frightful (provoking horror)
frightful (extremely distressing)
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