grimness

noun

Etymology: From Middle English grimnesse, from Old English grimnes (“severity, fierceness, cruelty”), equivalent to grim + -ness.

1. The characteristic or quality of being grim.

   “This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness.”

   “This is a good example of Huxley's method of setting off against each other the frivolities of the artificial world and the grimnesses of the real one […]”