grimness
/ɡɹˈɪmnəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness."
- "This is a good example of Huxley's method of setting off against each other the frivolities of the artificial world and the grimnesses of the real one […]"
Etymology
From Middle English grimnesse, from Old English grimnes (“severity, fierceness, cruelty”), equivalent to grim + -ness.