grimness

Pronunciation:		gr'imnus
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [n] the quality of being ghastly

	Synonyms:	asperity, ghastliness, gruesomeness, hardship, luridness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severity

	See Also:	difficultness, difficulty, frightfulness

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Grim"ness\, n. [AS. grimnes.] Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

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