Definition of "ghoulishness" [ghoulishness]

• The quality of being ghoulish (noun)

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• "There is in these verses a certain morbidity, an almost ghoulishness, that is very seldom present elsewhere in his writing."
• "Henry acknowledges the benefit of donating one's body for medical research but points out that the plasticized bodies are displayed in poses of recreation, such as throwing a baseball, and of "ghoulishness," with one's innards exposed and skin draped over an arm."
• "Her retelling of the opening of the grave of Rossetti's wife, the glorious redhead Lizzie Siddal, five years after her death so her husband could retrieve the poems he had buried with her earns high marks for ghoulishness: The dead girl looked completely unchanged until the manuscript was removed and part of her cheek stuck to it."