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grimness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English grimnesse, from Old English grimnes (“severity, fierceness, cruelty”), equivalent to grim + -ness.

  1. inherited from grimnes — “severity, fierceness, cruelty”
  2. inherited from grimnesse

Definitions

  1. The characteristic or quality of being grim.

    • This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness.
    • This is a good example of Huxley's method of setting off against each other the frivolities of the artificial world and the grimnesses of the real one […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grimness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA