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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The quality of being awful, or of striking or inspiring with awe, fear, or horror; impressive solemnity or sublimity; dreadfulness; terribleness: as, the awfulness of the sacred place, or of a casualty.
  2. n. The state of being full of or inspired with awe; reverence; awe.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
  2. n. The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity.
  2. n. obsolete The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a quality of extreme unpleasantness

Etymologies

  1. awful +‎ -ness (Wiktionary)

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