Meanings
plural heinousnesses
- uncountableusuallyThe property of being heinous.
But again that last scene at Compiegne rose visibly before her; not only his falsehood to her, but his slander of her, came to mind. It seemed as if she had never felt their full heinousness till now—now that with shame she owned that for a moment she had relented in his favour.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 212
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
German Schwärze
- Schwärzethe property of being heinous
Irish gráiniúlacht, fuafaireacht
- gráiniúlachtthe property of being heinous
- fuafaireachtthe property of being heinous
- uafásthe property of being heinous
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