terribleness

Variant of terrible

adjective

  1. causing terror; fearful; frightful; dreadful
  2. extreme; intense; severe
  3. Informal very bad, unpleasant; disagreeable, etc.: a general term of disapproval

Origin: OFr < L terribilis < terrere, to frighten: see terror

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