Home › Words › H › harrowingnessharrowingnessharrowingness means the quality of being harrowing.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, harrowingness ranks #25,683 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom harrowing + -ness.nounThe quality of being harrowing.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).