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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 heinousness
 可憎;極惡

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hei·nous a.  Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
    It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege.   --Hooker.
 How heinous had the fact been, how deserving
 Contempt!   --Milton.
 Syn: -- Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious.
 -- Hei*nous*ly, adv. -- Hei*nous*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 heinousness
      n : the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity,
           atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness]