grimness

English

Etymology

grim +‎ -ness

Noun

grimness (usually uncountable, plural grimnesses)

  1. The characteristic or quality of being grim.
    • 2007, George Woodcock, Dawn and the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley, page 79:
      This is a good example of Huxley's method of setting off against each other the frivolities of the artificial world and the grimnesses of the real one […]
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