Definitions for odiousness

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

o•di•ous*ˈoʊ di əs(adj.)

  1. deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.

  2. highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting.

* Syn: See hateful.

Origin of odious:

1350–1400; ME < L odiōsus=odi(um) hatred, odium+-ōsus -ous

o′di•ous•ness(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. offensiveness, odiousness, distastefulness(noun)

    the quality of being offensive

Wiktionary

  1. odiousness(Noun)

    The condition of being odious

  2. odiousness(Noun)

    An odious thing


Translations for odiousness

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

odiousness(noun)

hateful; disgusting

She is an odious young woman.

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