GRIMNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grimness mean? 

• GRIMNESS (noun)
  The noun GRIMNESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being ghastly

2. something hard to endure

  Familiarity information: GRIMNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIMNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being ghastly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ghastliness; grimness; gruesomeness; luridness

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something hard to endure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

the asperity of northern winters

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)

 Context examples 

There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility.

(White Fang, by Jack London)