Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of bringing calamity or misery; deep distress; wretchedness; misery.
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- noun The state or quality of being
calamitous .
Etymologies
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calamitous + -ness
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Examples
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He's been away for far too long but the goalkeeper known as 'El Loco' has made headlines this week after again producing a moment of 'calamitousness' that makes David James look completely sane.
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It was purely a rhetorical question, but, much later, when he would have time to think about it, Scott Melroy was to wonder if ever in history such a question had been answered so promptly and with such dramatic calamitousness.
Day of the Moron H. Beam Piper 1934
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