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Answer for the clue "A quality of extreme unpleasantness ", 12 letters:
terribleness

Word definitions for terribleness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a quality of extreme unpleasantness [syn: awfulness , dreadfulness , horridness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being terrible.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terrible \Ter"ri*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. terribilis, fr. terrere to frighten. See Terror .] Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable. Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. --Prior. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the ...

Usage examples of terribleness.

And it was all therethe strangeness, the terribleness, of this wilf ride of a man on the back of a blue-tinted beastlike being that hated himand knew about the ship.

One dares not speak of terribleness, or brutality here, for fear of injecting value judgments into the narrative.