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See also: schrecklichkeit

Schrecklichkeit f ‎(genitive Schrecklichkeit, plural Schrecklichkeiten)

See also: Schrecklichkeit

schrecklichkeit ‎(uncountable)

A military policy of terrorising an enemy, especially through its civilian population.
A general atmosphere or situation of awfulness or dread.
- 1973: I embarked on the quotidian schrecklichkeit of getting up. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 11)