desperateness

And in the desperateness of it, in the fierce height to which his battling temper had arisen, he had killed his man.

The inroads of hunger were already experienced; and this knowledge of the desperateness of my calamity urged me to frenzy.

From General Lee's letters, official and private, one gets a clear view of the desperateness of his position.

A lady visitor was groaning politically to Madame de Girardin over the desperateness of the situation.

Then she paused with them in her hand, and the desperateness of the venture nearly overwhelmed her.