grotesqueness

English

Etymology

From grotesque +‎ -ness.

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Noun

grotesqueness (countable and uncountable, plural grotesquenesses)

  1. The characteristic or quality of being grotesque.
    • 2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011), page 137:
      She was aware of a perverse flicker of thought in herself: If this idea did, somehow, have legs (which it almost certainly did not – it was crazy, maybe illegal, unsavory to the point of grotesqueness), then she’d want to get a real writer on it.

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