GRIMNESS

asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness

(noun) something hard to endure; “the asperity of northern winters”

ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness

(noun) the quality of being ghastly

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

grimness (usually uncountable, plural grimnesses)

The characteristic or quality of being grim.

Source: Wiktionary


Grim"ness, n. Etym: [AS. grimnes.]

Definition: Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

15 November 2024

HISTOLOGICALLY

(adverb) involving the use of histology or histological techniques; “histologically identifiable structures”


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Coffee Trivia

The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.

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