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Princeton's WordNet

  1. atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousnessnoun

    the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

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  1. heinousnessnoun

    The property of being heinous.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Heinousnessnoun

    Atrociousness; wickedness.

    Etymology: from heinous.

    He who can treat offences provoking to God as jests and trifles, must have very little sense of the heinousness of them. John Rogers, Sermons.

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  1. heinousness

    Heinousness refers to the quality of being shockingly evil, wicked, or atrocious; it describes the nature of a terrible action or deed that is extremely reprehensible or offensive.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of heinousness in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of heinousness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of heinousness in a Sentence

  1. Stephen Breyer:

    The apparent reason has nothing to do with the heinousness of their crimes, apparently the reason the State decided to proceed with these eight executions is that the 'use by' date of the state's execution drug is about to expire. In my view, that factor, when considered as a determining factor separating those who live from those who die, is close to random.


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