HIDEOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (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)

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