Meaning of horrificness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being horrific.

uncountable

Examples

“Everything is absolutely still, air and water are stagnant. A large Dytiscus beetle rises to the surface to breathe⟳ and every now and then large bubbles of marsh gas come⟳ sailing majestically up from the depth and explode⟳ quietly into the fetid air. The horrificness of this place⟳ impressed me even when I was intent only on fishing there for bugs and efts. Now, seen in retrospect, it haunts me.”

“I suppose⟳ the last⟳ thing someone in my nervous state needed was caffeine, but that didn’t stop⟳ me from hitting the ’Bucks with Madison and Paige before school the next morning for a soothing Chai latte. Something told me that was the only soothing I’d be having, at least until stolen-paper-culprit had been identified and the horrificness had been resolved.”

“I lay⟳ there, momentarily shell-shocked as, hungover and jet-lagged, I tried to remember⟳ what I was doing today. Something important. Lurching bolt upright, the room spinning in all its lilac horrificness, I remembered Tioman, and the flight that was booked – the daily flight, the only flight.”

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