Ghastliness and Hideousness

Ghastliness

Ghastliness noun - The quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay.
Usage example: the ghastliness of the Holocaust can scarcely be described

Hideousness and ghastliness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hideousness" instead a noun "Ghastliness".

Hideousness

Hideousness noun - The quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay.
Usage example: the indescribable hideousness of the squalor in which the villagers are forced to live

Ghastliness and hideousness are semantically related. You can use "Ghastliness" instead a noun "Hideousness".
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