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luridness

n. The property of being lurid.

WordNet
luridness
  1. n. the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation" [syn: sensationalism]

  2. unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) [syn: lividness, lividity, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia]

  3. the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness]

Usage examples of "luridness".

Elsewhere, though, half a dozen blobs of dancing, spitting luridness fled from them.

Reflexively she glanced across at Myra, who was engrossed once more in the endlessly elaborating luridness of her softwall soap.