English Explanatory Dictionary

hideousness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being hideous; extreme ugliness

Word forms

hideousness hideousnesses

Etymology

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

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