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)."
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