Hypertext Webster Gateway: "grimness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grimness \Grim"ness\, n. [AS. grimnes.]
Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
grimness
n 1: the quality of being ghastly [syn: {ghastliness}, {gruesomeness},
{luridness}]
2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn: {asperity}, {hardship}, {rigor}, {rigour}, {severity},
{rigorousness}]
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