grimness

2 definitions found

grimness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Grimness \Grim"ness\, n. [AS. grimnes.]
     Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
     [1913 Webster]

grimness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  grimness
      n 1: the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness,
           grimness, gruesomeness, luridness]
      2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
         [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour,
         severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]