awfulnessn.

Brit.

/ˈɔːf(ᵿ)lnəs/, U.S.

/ˈɔfəlnəs/,

/ˈɑfəlnəs/

Forms: see awful adj. and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: awful adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < awful adj. + -ness suffix. With sense 2 compare awelessness n.

†a. An act, deed, work, etc., that fills or inspires others with awe. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxliv. 6 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 270 Mighte ofe þine aghfulnesses sal þai sai.

b. The quality of striking awe into someone, esp. of filling an onlooker with awe or dread. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [noun] > inspiring awe

awfulness1600

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being awesome > [noun]

awea1425

awfulness1600

awesomeness1648

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > [noun] > quality of inspiring

terriblenessa1533

terribility1593

awfulness1600

awesomeness1648

terribilità1923

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > quality of inspiring reverence > [noun] > action or quality of inspiring reverential fear

awea1425

awfulness1600

awing1606

1600 C. Lumsden tr. R. Rollock Expos. Select Psalmes David 289 God as a juste judge, passeth vp vpon his judgement seate, and with majestie sitteth therevpon, and with such an awfulnes, that everie sinner is easily affrayd to come before his face.

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 131 Where will be the solemn engagement and awfulness of Baptism?

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 110. ¶2 When Night heightens the Awfulness of the Place, and pours out her supernumerary Horrours upon every thing in it.

1746 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 392/2 The executioner..was so affected with his lordship's distress, and the awfulness of the scene, that, on asking him forgiveness, he burst into tears.

1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. xvi. 479 The awfulness of falling into the hands of an angry God.

1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. xxii. 233 I must refer to Master James, or Master Frank, for the description of the austerity of his frown, or the awfulness of his rebuke.

1854 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. ii. 107 The cold awfulness of an American judge.

1992 J. Shapcott Phrase Bk. 25 I'm wondering, as I reach to comfort him, about love—how it lets in the whole world, even the cloud sitting on the mountain top, the awfulness of the stars we can't see.

2. The state or quality of being filled with awe; profound reverence or dread.Often used in the context of religious experience, in later use usually with reference to the concept of the numinous proposed by the German theologian, Rudolf Otto (1869–1937); cf. numinous adj. 2.Now usually in the form awefulness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > [noun]

stupora1398

fearc1400

awfulness1574

horror1579

religiona1642

awe1743

the mind > emotion > fear > awe > [noun] > state of being full of

awfulness1574

awedness1601

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > reverential fear

dreadingc1175

devotion?c1225

trembling1303

awea1400

dread1508

awfulness1574

awedness1601

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job xxii. 123/1 When it commeth to the seruing of God, and too walking in feare and awfulnesse [Fr. solicitude]: thys ought to come to our remembrance.

a1617 S. Hieron Wks. (1634) II. 436 An outward submissiuenesse without an inward awfulnesse were but hypocrisie.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 30 Tender'd to all the Guests..with the greatest care, and awfulness imaginable.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 415. ¶6 Every thing that is Majestick, imprints an Awfulness and Reverence on the Mind.

1866 Ann. Monitor 1867 (Society of Friends) 11 Being alone in a field, such a feeling of awfulness, with unspeakable sweetness, covered my mind, as made me believe I was in the presence of the Almighty One.

2010 C. Taliaferro et al. Compan. to Philos. of Relig. (ed. 2) 237 Associated with the experience of awefulness is the experience of the tremendum as an overpowering might.

a. The quality of being very bad or unpleasant. (Now the usual sense.)

ΚΠ

a1818 A. Graydon Mem. of his Own Time (1846) App. 483 In minds not duly impressed with the awfulness of the crisis, they [sc. his warnings] might be liable to the imputation of a party spirit.

1894 Advocate of Peace June 129/2 He had seen war in all its awfulness, and he preferred peace.

1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 29 July 71/3 It runs the gamut of awfulness from homework to something the cat contributed to ecology.

1991 W. Styron Darkness Visible ix. 75 Save for the awfulness of certain memories it leaves, acute depression inflicts few permanent wounds.

2019 @Macca_ISZ 17 June in twitter.com (accessed 18 June 2019) The first gym session after over a week off is up there with Brexit in terms of just sheer awfulness.

b. Something very bad or unpleasant; an awful state of affairs, act, characteristic, etc.

ΚΠ

1878 Evening Tel. (Dundee) 25 Dec. How could she conceive of the bitterness of poverty, with its horrible temptations, or the desperateness of want? She had never experienced this awfulness.

1952 J. H. Burns Cry of Children ii. 149 David's face came before me; I passed in review all his nicenesses and his awfulnesses.

2012 Chichester Observer (Nexis) 20 June That these awfulnesses can be perpetrated on our area under a plan where he expects us to give in to the greed of his company, is quite astonishing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	awfulness
释义	awfulnessn. Brit. /ˈɔːf(ᵿ)lnəs/, U.S. /ˈɔfəlnəs/, /ˈɑfəlnəs/ Forms: see awful adj. and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: awful adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < awful adj. + -ness suffix. With sense 2 compare awelessness n. 1. †a. An act, deed, work, etc., that fills or inspires others with awe. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxliv. 6 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 270 Mighte ofe þine aghfulnesses sal þai sai. b. The quality of striking awe into someone, esp. of filling an onlooker with awe or dread. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [noun] > inspiring awe awfulness1600 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being awesome > [noun] awea1425 awfulness1600 awesomeness1648 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > [noun] > quality of inspiring terriblenessa1533 terribility1593 awfulness1600 awesomeness1648 terribilità1923 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > quality of inspiring reverence > [noun] > action or quality of inspiring reverential fear awea1425 awfulness1600 awing1606 1600 C. Lumsden tr. R. Rollock Expos. Select Psalmes David 289 God as a juste judge, passeth vp vpon his judgement seate, and with majestie sitteth therevpon, and with such an awfulnes, that everie sinner is easily affrayd to come before his face. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 131 Where will be the solemn engagement and awfulness of Baptism? 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 110. ¶2 When Night heightens the Awfulness of the Place, and pours out her supernumerary Horrours upon every thing in it. 1746 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 392/2 The executioner..was so affected with his lordship's distress, and the awfulness of the scene, that, on asking him forgiveness, he burst into tears. 1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. xvi. 479 The awfulness of falling into the hands of an angry God. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. xxii. 233 I must refer to Master James, or Master Frank, for the description of the austerity of his frown, or the awfulness of his rebuke. 1854 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. ii. 107 The cold awfulness of an American judge. 1992 J. Shapcott Phrase Bk. 25 I'm wondering, as I reach to comfort him, about love—how it lets in the whole world, even the cloud sitting on the mountain top, the awfulness of the stars we can't see. 2. The state or quality of being filled with awe; profound reverence or dread.Often used in the context of religious experience, in later use usually with reference to the concept of the numinous proposed by the German theologian, Rudolf Otto (1869–1937); cf. numinous adj. 2.Now usually in the form awefulness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > [noun] stupora1398 fearc1400 awfulness1574 horror1579 religiona1642 awe1743 the mind > emotion > fear > awe > [noun] > state of being full of awfulness1574 awedness1601 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > reverential fear dreadingc1175 devotion?c1225 trembling1303 awea1400 dread1508 awfulness1574 awedness1601 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job xxii. 123/1 When it commeth to the seruing of God, and too walking in feare and awfulnesse [Fr. solicitude]: thys ought to come to our remembrance. a1617 S. Hieron Wks. (1634) II. 436 An outward submissiuenesse without an inward awfulnesse were but hypocrisie. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 30 Tender'd to all the Guests..with the greatest care, and awfulness imaginable. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 415. ¶6 Every thing that is Majestick, imprints an Awfulness and Reverence on the Mind. 1866 Ann. Monitor 1867 (Society of Friends) 11 Being alone in a field, such a feeling of awfulness, with unspeakable sweetness, covered my mind, as made me believe I was in the presence of the Almighty One. 2010 C. Taliaferro et al. Compan. to Philos. of Relig. (ed. 2) 237 Associated with the experience of awefulness is the experience of the tremendum as an overpowering might. 3. a. The quality of being very bad or unpleasant. (Now the usual sense.) ΚΠ a1818 A. Graydon Mem. of his Own Time (1846) App. 483 In minds not duly impressed with the awfulness of the crisis, they [sc. his warnings] might be liable to the imputation of a party spirit. 1894 Advocate of Peace June 129/2 He had seen war in all its awfulness, and he preferred peace. 1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 29 July 71/3 It runs the gamut of awfulness from homework to something the cat contributed to ecology. 1991 W. Styron Darkness Visible ix. 75 Save for the awfulness of certain memories it leaves, acute depression inflicts few permanent wounds. 2019 @Macca_ISZ 17 June in twitter.com (accessed 18 June 2019) The first gym session after over a week off is up there with Brexit in terms of just sheer awfulness. b. Something very bad or unpleasant; an awful state of affairs, act, characteristic, etc. ΚΠ 1878 Evening Tel. (Dundee) 25 Dec. How could she conceive of the bitterness of poverty, with its horrible temptations, or the desperateness of want? She had never experienced this awfulness. 1952 J. H. Burns Cry of Children ii. 149 David's face came before me; I passed in review all his nicenesses and his awfulnesses. 2012 Chichester Observer (Nexis) 20 June That these awfulnesses can be perpetrated on our area under a plan where he expects us to give in to the greed of his company, is quite astonishing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1400
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