balefulness
/ˈbeɪlfəlnəs/
noun
- The quality of being threatening or harmful; menace.
- The balefulness of his expression made everyone in the room uneasy.
- There was a distinct balefulness in the way the abandoned house loomed over the street.
- The story's villain had an air of balefulness that frightened the children.
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