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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grievousness

Grievous \Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See Grief.]

  1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.

    The famine was grievous in the land.
    --Gen. xii. 10.

    The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
    --Gen. xxi. 11.

  2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
    --Gen. xviii. 20.

  3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- Griev"ous*ly, adv. -- Griev"ous*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grievousness

c.1300, from grievous + -ness.

Wiktionary
grievousness

n. the quality or state of being grievous

Usage examples of "grievousness".

Till then I will win fame, and will bid Trojan and Dardanian women wring tears from their tender cheeks with both their hands in the grievousness of their great sorrow.