Meaning & use
Odiousness
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The quality of being extremely unpleasant, hateful, or offensive.
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The odiousness of the crime shocked the entire community.
Critics condemned the odiousness of the policy's underlying assumptions.
A note on using this word
"Odiousness" is the noun form of "odious," which comes from the Latin "odium," meaning hatred.
Words with a similar meaning
repugnancehatefulness
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Words with an opposite meaning
pleasantnesslikability
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