schrecklichkeit
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See also: Schrecklichkeit
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From German Schrecklichkeit (“awfulness”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
schrecklichkeit (uncountable)
- A military policy of terrorising an enemy, especially through its civilian population.
- A general atmosphere or situation of awfulness or dread.
- 1973: I embarked on the quotidian schrecklichkeit of getting up. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 11)