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Etymology
From fell + -ness.
Noun
fellness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe, / And said, Caytiue, cursse on thy cruell hond [...].