Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being hideous; extreme ugliness.

    Abscheulichkeit

More definitions
  • dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness

Translations

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By meaning 1
being hideous:

Origin

From Middle English hidousnes, hidousnesse, hidowesnesse, hydousnes, hydousnesse, hydusnes

From Middle English hidousnes, hidousnesse, hidowesnesse, hydousnes, hydousnesse, hydusnes; equivalent to hideous + -ness.

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Forms

plural: hideousnesses
Singularhideousness
Pluralhideousnesses

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedhideous

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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