Synonyms for Grimness (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (the quality of being ghastly):
ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness
WordNet sense 2 (something hard to endure):
asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, severeness, severity, rigour, rigourousness
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