Synonyms for shockingness
- barbarity
- horror
- atrociousness
- barbarousness
- enormity
- heinousness
- nefariousness
- wickedness
- fiendishness
- monstrousness
- villianousness
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While the firing was in progress I saw a sight that in all of my subsequent experiences was not equalled in shockingness.
WORD ORIGIN
1690s, "offensive," present participle adjective from shock (v.1). From 1704 as "causing a jolt of indignation, horror, etc.;" from 1798 as "so bad as to be shocking." Related: Shockingly. Shocking pink introduced February 1937 by Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
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