horrificality

English

Etymology

From horrifical +‎ -ity.

Noun

horrificality (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being horrifical.

   Synonyms: (rare) horrificity, horrificness

   • 1938 August 7, “[Radio] Sunday On the Air”, in The Hammond Times, volume XXXIII, number 42, Hammond, Ind., page ten, column 1:

     9:00, WMAQ—Horrible Horace, the Heidt of Horrificality.

   • 1962 December 27, Milton R. Bass, “The Lively Arts”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 71, number 198, Pittsfield, Mass., page 8, column 1:

     PARENTS ARE continually querying me about the suitability of current movies for their children. Most are questioning on the grounds of morality or horrificality, but there are a few who only want to know if the child will find it edifying in some form or other.

   • 1992 October, Robert Silverberg, “Hunters in the Forest”, in Byron Preiss, Robert Silverberg, et al., editors, The Ultimate Dinosaur: Past, Present, Future, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, section 6 (Dinosaur Predators), page 137, column 1:

     He is astonished to discover that even now, facing this embodiment of death, he is not at all afraid. Fascinated, yes, by the sheer deadliness of the creature, by its excessive horrificality.

   • [2000 September 21, Jonadab the Unsightly One [pseudonym], “Poll: Programming language or adventure scripting language?”, in rec.arts.int-fiction‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-04-04:

     > But this whole discussion assumes that "ISO C" will solve the problems
     > of portability, which is not the case. A study of the Inform source will
     > demonstrate some of the challenges involved in writing portable C,
     Most notably, the horrificity[1] of allocating RAM on various platforms. […] [1] That's a word now. Perhaps. It's better than horrificality would have been, anyway.]

   • 2008 August 11, Marke B., “Photo Issue: Molly Decoudreaux looks beneath the nightlife”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian‎^[2], via 48 Hills, archived from the original on 2024-04-11:

     It’s hopeless to ignore the incredible explosion of nightlife photography that’s happened on the Web and in art schools these past few years. […] On the one hand, there’s incredible creativity being documented instantaneously and available to all — even in Djibouti, fantastic weirdos need never feel alone. On the other, there’s the sense that mere dressing up for the ever-present cameras has replaced actual self-expression. Misshapes! Cobra Snakes! Blue States Lose! And then there’s just the pure horrificality of sites like this one, which are about boobs. Par-T&A!