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

Word definitions for terribleness in dictionaries

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 ...

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

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.