Hypertext Webster Gateway: "awfulness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Awfulness \Aw"ful*ness\, n.
1. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence;
dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred
place.
The awfulness of grandeur. --Johnson.
2. The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity;
profound reverence. [Obs.]
Producing in us reverence and awfulness. --Jer.
Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
awfulness
n : a quality of extreme unpleasantness [syn: {dreadfulness}, {horridness},
{terribleness}]
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