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Disastrousness

Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See Disaster.]

  1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.]

    The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.
    --Milton.

  2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking.

    Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances.
    --Shak. -- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n.

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disastrousness

n. The state or condition of being disastrous.

Usage examples of "disastrousness".

But I am about to make a single colossal, egregious, flagrant, and appalling oversight whose disastrousness is exceeded only by its irony.