disastrousness
Sheer ruinous nature
Disastrousness is the quality or state of being disastrous—marked by catastrophe, severe damage, or ruinous consequences.
The word emphasizes the degree to which something has gone badly wrong: The disastrousness of the decision became clear only years later.
It appears most often in formal or written contexts where disaster itself would feel too blunt and disastrous too adjectival to capture the abstract quality being discussed.
Devastating, large-scale misfortune
- cataclysmViolent, large-scale disaster
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- havocWidespread destruction and chaos
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
devastation · misfortune · adversity · woe · affliction · tribulation · blight · curse
Size or scale
- severityIntensity of sternness
- enormityGrave wickedness or immensity
- extentRange or magnitude
- gravityMutual mass attraction
immensity · scope · proportions · consequences · impact · ramifications · fallout · toll
Utter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- rubbleBroken building fragments
debris · decimation · razing · ruination · eradication · shattering · crumbling · aftermath
Humiliating public failure
- debacleSudden, complete failure
- collapseSudden structural failure
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
- botchSpoil through incompetence
catastrophe · misstep · defeat · bankruptcy · downturn · incompetence · ineptitude · mismanagement
catastrophe
Devastating, large-scale misfortune
- cataclysmViolent, large-scale disaster
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- havocWidespread destruction and chaos
ruin · devastation · misfortune · adversity · woe · affliction · tribulation · blight · curse · desolation
magnitude
Size or scale
gravity · immensity · scope · proportions · consequences · impact · ramifications · fallout · toll · damage
annihilation
Utter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
rubble · debris · decimation · razing · ruination · eradication · shattering · crumbling · aftermath · carnage
fiasco
Humiliating public failure
botch · catastrophe · misstep · defeat · bankruptcy · downturn · incompetence · ineptitude · mismanagement · bungling
disastrousnesssuccessfulness
State of achieving goals
fortunateness · auspiciousness · blessedness · felicity · triumph
disastrousnesssanctuary
Protected sacred space
safety · security · harmlessness · safeness · shelter
disastrousnessharmlessness
Inability to cause damage
innocuousness · inconsequentialness · triviality · insignificance · inconsequentiality
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