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  • noun The state or condition of being fearsome.

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fearsome +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The decision not to use them was borne of budget constraints on the show and the feeling that they might lose their fearsomeness due to overexposure (a thought that was apparently overcome by the fourth season of Star Trek: Voyager).

    05 « August « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009

  • (But it explains the ferocity and fearsomeness of my Viking ancestors, no?)

    When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists 2009

  • The decision not to use them was borne of budget constraints on the show and the feeling that they might lose their fearsomeness due to overexposure (a thought that was apparently overcome by the fourth season of Star Trek: Voyager).

    Revisiting the Movies – Star Trek: First Contact 2009

  • Again and again, drinking in the strangeness and the fearsomeness of the world from her lips, I had heard her state that if one offended an

    Chapter 4 2010

  • If Steichen ingratiated himself with the powerful—he initially enraged J.P. Morgan with his 1909-10 portrait, only to have the financial titan quickly realize that the photograph was admiring of his fearsomeness—Strand always sided with the dispossessed.

    From the Shadows of Giants Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • Around the last corner, where the trash Dumpsters were clustered like a modern Stonehenge of rust and dented steel, there was Bad Moon in all of his past glory and fearsomeness.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • Around the last corner, where the trash Dumpsters were clustered like a modern Stonehenge of rust and dented steel, there was Bad Moon in all of his past glory and fearsomeness.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • Readers were fascinated by the fearsomeness of Indian warfare, the courage of a woman captured and victimized, and the sorrow of a mother who lost her youngest daughter in the attack.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • “Aarrggghhh,” he growled, face distorted with giant-like fearsomeness.

    Marauding Giants « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2006

  • “Aarrggghhh,” he growled, face distorted with giant-like fearsomeness.

    December « 2006 « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2006

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