heinousness

hei·nous

H0127200 (hā′nəs)adj.1. Wicked; abominable: a heinous crime.2. Informal Very unappealing; ugly: showed up wearing that heinous shirt.

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[Middle English, from Old French haineus, from haine, hatred, from hair, to hate, from Frankish *hatjan.]

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hei′nous·ly adv.hei′nous·ness n.

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heinousness - the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumaneatrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, barbarousnessinhumaneness, inhumanity - the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others

heinousness

nounThe quality of passing all moral bounds:atrociousness, atrocity, enormity, monstrousness.

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