n.
[AS. grimnes.]
Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
grimness
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- The quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible: die-hardism, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, obduracy, obdurateness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness, stubbornness. See resist/yield.
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
the quality of being ghastly
Synonyms: ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness
Meaning #2:
something hard to endure
Synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness
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