grievousness
Quality of harshness
Grievousness is the quality of being grievous—seriously harmful, painful, or distressing.
The word describes the severity of wrongs, injuries, or offenses: The grievousness of the crime demanded the maximum sentence.
It emphasizes weight and gravity, suggesting something that causes deep suffering or warrants serious concern.
Intense mental suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
pain · misery · woe · trauma · ordeal · hardship · tribulation · adversity
Earnest, weighty demeanor
- acutenessIntensity or keenness
- direnessExtreme seriousness or urgency
- criticalityState of utmost importance
- intensityStrength or force level
extremity · profoundness · urgency · harshness · weightiness · magnitude · enormity · severity
Extreme moral reprehensibility
- egregiousnessRemarkably bad quality
- atrociousnessExtreme wickedness or cruelty
- flagrancyShameless conspicuousness of offense
- outrageousnessExtreme offensiveness or absurdity
deplorableness · reprehensibility · wickedness · iniquity · unconscionability · enormity · offensiveness · culpability
Crushing, burdensome quality
- onerousnessOppressive difficulty quality
- heavinessState of being weighty
- weightinessState of being consequential
- strenuousnessState of requiring effort
exhaustiveness · overwhelming · laboriousness · arduousness · grueling · demanding · troublesomeness · encumbrance
anguish
Intense mental suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
distress · pain · misery · woe · trauma · ordeal · hardship · tribulation · adversity · sorrow
seriousness
Earnest, weighty demeanor
- acutenessIntensity or keenness
- direnessExtreme seriousness or urgency
- criticalityState of utmost importance
intensity · extremity · profoundness · urgency · harshness · weightiness · magnitude · enormity · severity · grimness
heinousness
Extreme moral reprehensibility
- egregiousnessRemarkably bad quality
- atrociousnessExtreme wickedness or cruelty
- flagrancyShameless conspicuousness of offense
outrageousness · deplorableness · reprehensibility · wickedness · iniquity · unconscionability · enormity · offensiveness · culpability · blameworthiness
oppressiveness
Crushing, burdensome quality
- onerousnessOppressive difficulty quality
- heavinessState of being weighty
- weightinessState of being consequential
strenuousness · exhaustiveness · overwhelming · laboriousness · arduousness · grueling · demanding · troublesomeness · encumbrance
grievousnesstrivialness
Lack of significance
mildness · slightness · insignificance · negligibility · pettiness
grievousnessjoy
Intense positive emotion
joyfulness · delightfulness · pleasantness · happiness · cheerfulness
gravity, grief, grieve, engrave, grievance, grieving, grievous, grieved, aggrieved