unforgivableness

State of irredeemability

The quality of being impossible to forgive or excuse.

The word describes actions, words, or betrayals so severe that no apology or passage of time could make them acceptable: The unforgivableness of his betrayal hung between them for decades.

The noun is rare, with *unforgivable* handling most work.

moral

heinousness

Extreme moral reprehensibility

egregiousness · vileness · shamefulness · atrocity · abomination · monstrosity · wickedness · depravity · sinfulness · wrongfulness

resentment

bitterness

Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling

  • rancorLasting bitter resentment
  • grudgePersistent resentment toward someone
  • animosityActive, bitter hostility

vindictiveness · ill-will · hostility · acrimony · spite · malice · enmity · wrath · indignation · umbrage

severity

gravity

Mutual mass attraction

ruthlessness · relentlessness · brutality · cruelty · mercilessness · pitilessness · inexorability · rigor · callousness

permanence

indelibility

State of being unerasable

lastingness · perpetuity · permanence · fixedness · immutability

Opposites
capacity for pardon or absolution

unforgivablenessforgivableness

Capacity to be pardoned

excusability · veniality · redeemability

moral severity

unforgivablenesstrivialness

Lack of significance

harmlessness · innocuousness · blamelessness · insignificance · pettiness

Family

forgive, forgiveness, forgivable, unforgivable, forgiven, forgiving, forgivingly, unforgiving, unforgivingly

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G