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Meanings of awfulness in English

Catalan
terror
Spanish
terror

A quality of extreme unpleasantness.

terror
Usage of awfulness in English
1
Benita shuddered; the solemn awfulness of the place and scene oppressed her.
Benita, an African romance
2
Her voice was reverent; the awfulness of the heavens had humbled her.
There was a King in Egypt
3
She shuddered at the awfulness of it and backed the canoe out.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods; Or, The Winnebagos Go Ca...
4
The awfulness of the phenomenon is that nobody knows anything about it.
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
5
That was what made the thing stand out in its sheer awfulness.
The Tree of Heaven
6
It is dreadful, of course; but its dreadfulness melts into pure awfulness.
Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
7
The awfulness of the dark winter-time amidst those Northern seas overshadowed him.
Macleod of Dare
8
We may be murderers and never suspect the awfulness of our crime.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
9
It won't be the same plane crash of awfulness that was RBS.
The Guardian
10
The awfulness of sudden death and the glory of heaven stunned me!
The Last of the Plainsmen
11
The awfulness was so awful that it took away from anything else.
The Guardian
12
That contrast lends a sharpening effect to the awfulness and violence.
Wired
13
Fortunately, the awfulness of autumn bring with it hope and resolve.
The new yorker
14
We believe that there is a way out of this awfulness.
The Irish Times
15
So you know, in a very real sense, the awfulness is our fault.
The Guardian
16
At least the special awfulness of people looks less special now.
The new yorker
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Awfulness through the time
Awfulness across language varieties
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