Etymology

terribleness

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Today it means: The characteristic of being terrible. Full definition →

English terrible ← Middle English terrible ← Old French terrible
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The story

  1. Old Frenchterrible
  2. Middle Englishterrible
  3. Englishterrible
  4. English todayterribleness

From terrible + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.