Noun: grimness grim-nus
- The quality of being hard to endure, uninviting or formidable
"the grimness of northern winters";
- asperity, hardship, rigor [US], rigour [Brit, Cdn], severity, severeness [rare], rigorousness
- The quality of being ghastly
"The grimness of the crime scene disturbed even experienced detectives";
- ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness
Type of: difficultness, difficulty, frightfulness