grimness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being ghastly
    gruesomeness; ghastliness; luridness.
  2. noun something hard to endure
    hardship; rigourousness; severeness; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; asperity; severity.
    • the asperity of northern winters

WordNet


Grim"ness noun
Etymology
AS. grimnes.
Definitions
  1. Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

Webster 1913