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The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
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heinousness
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being heinous.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity , atrociousness , barbarity , barbarousness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
heinousness \heinousness\ n. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane. Syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness.
Usage examples of heinousness.
Hans announced himself ready to swear anything, adding blandly that words mattered nothing, as afterwards we could do whatever seemed best in our own interests, whereon I read him a short moral lecture on the heinousness of perjury, which did not seem to impress him very much.
It was felt that the principle of diminished responsibility applied to their actions in view of the heinousness of the crime they had just witnessed.