Grimness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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