dreadfulness

1. Yu Hua is like a prophet living in solitude, who is afraid of the inclemency of the world and dreadfulness of human nature, and also worries about his own disability for that, but calmly tells a premonition that a doomsday is coming unconventionally.
   他如同一位蛰居的先知，他恐惧于世事的险恶与人性的可怕，又焦虑人自身的无能为力，然而又异常平静地讲述着一个个末日来临的征兆。

noun

1. a quality of extreme unpleasantness

   Synonym:    awfulnesshorridnessterribleness