detestableness (detestablnes)

The quality of being detestable; extreme hatefulne . It is their intrinsic hatefulne and detestablene which originally inflames us against them. Adam Smith , Moral Sentiments, ii. § 2. detestably (dē-tes'ta-bli), adv . In a detestable manner; very hatefully; abominably; execrably. A temper of mind rendering men so detestably bad, that the great enemy of mankind neither can nor desires to make them worse. South .