shocking
adjective
causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
shockingness
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a word derived from
shocking.
Example Sentences
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Except there were several new developments of varying degrees of shockingness.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2012
For all their shockingness, all on one note.'
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
While the firing was in progress I saw a sight that in all of my subsequent experiences was not equalled in shockingness.
From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles Augustus Fuller
