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Ghastliness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state of being ghastly

n. A ghastly thing

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or quality of being ghastly; frightful or dreadful aspect; deathlikeness: as, the ghastliness of his appearance.

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n. the quality of being ghastly

Word Usage

"Every one could then recall the ghastliness of his features and all the evidences of extreme excitement they had observed throughout the trial, things they might otherwise have forgotten."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

frightfulness

Same Context

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