appallingness

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noun

The quality of being appalling.

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Meanings

nounappallingness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being appalling.

    The appallingness of the idea of murder, the appallingness of this murder, does not shake Hamlet to his soul and does not haunt him later. The deep damnation of the taking off is felt as only one of a series of horrors.

    1978, Wilbur Sanders, Howard Jacobson, Shakespeare's magnanimity

Origin

From appalling + -ness.

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APA

appallingness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appallingness

MLA

“appallingness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appallingness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “appallingness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appallingness.

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