Noun
hellishness (usually uncountable, plural hellishnesses)
The property of being hellish.
Synonym: (dated) infernalism
In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner. Albert Caraco