Definition of "gruesomeness" [gruesomeness]

• The characteristic or quality of being gruesome. (noun)

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• "The gruesomeness is in your mind, we both hunt and kill living things to eat them, why should one bit of gristle be more gruesome than another."
• "As others have pointed out, compared to the crimes for which he was being executed, one has to wonder if the gruesomeness was a bug or a feature."
• "Equally plainly, the scripts consistently fail to find the balance between gallows humour and the sheer gruesomeness of forensics work that you'd find in even a half-decent episode of CSI."