Definition of "forbiddingness" []

• The state or quality of being forbidding; repulsiveness, Richardson. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "There are a few stray "narrative" details -- the school is near a store "presided over by a matronly woman with a rather forbidding manner" -- but they are false leads: neither the matronliness, nor the forbiddingness, nor even the woman herself is ever mentioned again."
• "Unlike many of the gates of the rich, these were not ornamental—no fancy design, no family crest on the heavy bars, just thick double-welded iron in all its forbiddingness."
• "Aladdin frowned at Larch with all the forbiddingness that he could muster, but Larch was imperturbable."