horribilitas

horribilitas 1 bristliness (in quot., fig.), roughness, uncouthness. multitudo ‥ pilorum in pectore ‥ declarat ~atem et singularitatem nature Bacon V 167. 2 loathsomeness, repulsiveness. propter ~atem fetidi odoris Quaest. Salern. Ba 107; acetum quem musce fugiunt propter odoris ~atem Bart. Angl. IV 11; dicitur putredo ~as sine superaccensione et distemperantia Gilb. I 5. 2.