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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hideousness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables
hideous-ness
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state of being hideous; extreme ugliness.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English hidousnes, hidousnesse, hidowesnesse, hydousnes, hydousnesse, hydusnes; equivalent to hideous + -ness.

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Inflected Forms

hideousnesses (plural)

Questions

What does hideousness mean?
The state of being hideous; extreme ugliness.
Where does hideousness come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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