Grimness \Grim"ness\, n. [AS. grimnes.]
Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grimness
n 1: the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, gruesomeness,
luridness]
2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity,
rigorousness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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