Horridness (Noun)
Meaning
A quality of extreme unpleasantness.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The smell of rotten eggs filled the air with an overwhelming horridness that made it hard to breathe.
- The movie's portrayal of the zombie apocalypse was so realistic that it brought home the full horridness of the situation.
- The old abandoned asylum was said to be a place of unspeakable horridness, where patients had been subjected to inhumane treatments.
- The tourists were unprepared for the horridness of the polluted beach, with trash and debris scattered as far as the eye could see.
- The survivor's account of the war crimes committed during the conflict revealed the true horridness of the atrocities that had taken place.