awfulness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a quality of extreme unpleasantness
    dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness.

WordNet

Aw"ful*ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
    The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson.
  2. The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. Obs.
    Producing in us reverence and awfulness. Jer. Taylor.

Webster 1913