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Grisliness

Grisliness \Gris"li*ness\, n. The quality or state of being grisly; horrid.
--Sir P. Sidney.

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grisliness

n. The characteristic or quality of being grisly

Usage examples of "grisliness".

As the sun fell down the bowl of sky, and the sky cracked open, and the mountains ran like rivers forming faces that gaped and jeered, and the moon rose in the west and spat the grisliness of what he had done at him, Zero ran.

He had witnessed many savage and grisly deeds and much injustice and oppression, but none matched the grisliness and inhumanity of the deed that was the East End of London in the 1880s.

Beyond essentials, they'd mostly talked about times before the Change, as if to raise a barrier against the grisliness of their meeting.