[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being tremendous.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Tremendousness,… tremendous Quality, Worthiness to be feared or dreaded.

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1851.  H. Melville, Whale, xli. The pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale.

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1894.  Chicago Advance, 3 May. It is good … to recognize the tremendousness of death.

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1906.  19th Cent., June, 974. Æschylus overpowers us with his tremendousness.

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