Definition of "schrecklichkeit" in English

noun

1. A military policy of terrorising an enemy, especially through its civilian population.

2. 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)