What's the plural form of direness? Here's the word you're looking for.
Answer
The noun direness can be countable or uncountable.
In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will also be direness.
However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be direnesses e.g. in reference to various types of direnesses
or a collection of direnesses.
His case reflects the direness of the situation of human rights in North Korea.
Another task was to arouse awareness throughout society, especially the well-to-do and the intellectuals, of the direness of the plight of the poor and the destitute.
Even they had to come clean about the direness of the situation.
Rather than an indicator of the quality of British food, the popular appeal of celebrity chefs on British TV is precisely because its direness.
Should John Kerry, given his commitment and the direness of the situation, pack his bags?
Then taking matters into his own hands, my brother the quiet genius that he was, concocted a plan that would address the direness of the situation.
