The quality or state of being haggish; the appearance or behavior of being like a hag.
From 'haggish' plus the suffix '-ness,' which converts adjectives to abstract nouns representing their quality. Standard English noun formation.
The '-ness' suffix has been building English nouns for over a thousand years—it's so fundamental that we can add it to almost any adjective to create a new word for an intangible quality.
Noun form embedding the gendered stereotype that older or powerful women embody malevolence, aggression, or supernatural wrongness.
Replace with concrete descriptors: 'brusqueness,' 'severity,' or context-specific behavior names.
["severity","brusqueness","austerity"]
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