horribleness

But somehow the blind men themselves seldom seem to be overwhelmed by its horribleness.

He could not tell what fears had crowded upon him—they were indistinct in their horribleness—but some of them had already flown.

If I have one horror on earth which transcends all other horrors in horribleness, that horror is—pirates.

Amidst the horribleness of the dead, the men fought and lived.

Cain's words therefore are here to be understood affirmatively, and they show the horribleness of his despair.