Heinousness
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The condition or quality of being heinous; odiousness; enormity: as, the
heinousness
of a vice or crime.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.
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noun.
The property of being
heinous
.
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noun.
the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
Word Usage
"The problem isn’t the Grahams, or the Sulzbergers, or even the Moon family (not to defend them, but their heinousness is just incidental)."
Etymologically Related
atrocity
cruelty
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
inhumaneness
inhumanity
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
arcanum
cognizance
counterbalance
deceitfulness
disfiguration
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
atrociousness
atrocity
barbarity
barbarousness