Usually means: Extreme severity or seriousness; grimness.
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  1. direfulness: Collins English Dictionary
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  3. direfulness: Wiktionary
  4. direfulness: Dictionary.com
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▸ noun:  Quality of being direful.

Similar:
direness, drearness, despairfulness, dolorousness, dreadfulness, dreadness, dreariness, deathiness, deathliness, frightfulness, more...

Opposite:
blissfulness, joyfulness, happiness, contentment

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Similar:
direness, drearness, despairfulness, dolorousness, dreadfulness, dreadness, dreariness, deathiness, deathliness, frightfulness, more...

Opposite:
blissfulness, joyfulness, happiness, contentment



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