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Schrecklichkeit

Schrecklichkeit

See also: schrecklichkeit

German

Noun

Schrecklichkeit f (genitive Schrecklichkeit, plural Schrecklichkeiten)

  1. awfulness, horror, horribleness, terribleness, frightfulness

schrecklichkeit

schrecklichkeit

See also: Schrecklichkeit

English

Noun

schrecklichkeit (uncountable)

  1. A military policy of terrorising an enemy, especially through its civilian population.
  2. A general atmosphere or situation of awfulness or dread.
    • 1973: I embarked on the quotidian schrecklichkeit of getting up. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 11)