Synonyms and Antonyms of atrociousness
1
the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay - George Orwell's novel 1984 captures the atrociousness of tyranny.
atrocity, awfulness, dreadfulness, frightfulness, ghastliness, grisliness, gruesomeness, hideousness, horridness, horror, monstrosity, repulsiveness
badness, baseness, depravedness, depravity, diabolicalness, evil, evilness, foulness, heinousness, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, invidiousness, sinfulness, ungodliness, viciousness, vileness, wickedness
deplorableness, despicableness, detestableness, execrableness, hatefulness, loathsomeness, reprehensibleness
creepiness, eeriness, fearfulness, fearsomeness, ghoulishness, scariness
agony, anguish, hellishness, misery, torment, torture
2
the state or quality of being utterly evil - the unspeakable atrociousness of the genocide
atrocity, badness, depravedness, depravity, diabolicalness, enormity, evilness, heinousness, hideousness, monstrosity, sinfulness, vileness, wickedness
accursedness, baseness, cursedness, devilishness, execrableness, fiendishness, hellishness
corruption, decadence, degeneracy, pervertedness
immorality
infamy, notoriety
3
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others - the king's atrociousness in dealing with rivals to the throne
atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelty, fiendishness, heartlessness, inhumanity, inhumanness, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, wantonness
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unfeelingness
ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, grimness
bloodlust, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, sanguineness, sanguinity
cattiness, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spitefulness
hardhandedness, harshness, heavy-handedness, oppressiveness
