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Looking for a synonym for dauntingness that's less a of a mouthful. Something that retains the meaning of "the quality of being terrifying or demoralizing"
Example 1: Her ability to cause others to shake with her mere presence speaks of how high her dauntingness is.
Example 2: His low dauntingness, inspires great confidences in his enemies.
The word 'dauntingness' does not appear in the more credible dictionaries.
Looking for a synonym of 'daunting', the first example can be simplified to:
Her ability to cause others to shake with her mere presence speaks of how intimidating she is.
In the second example, I am not familiar with 'daunting' being used as an absent characteristic, and would rephrase it in the opposite sense, with a positive characteristic:
His approachability inspires great confidence in his enemies.
Note that 'confidence' is uncountable here, so does not take the plural form.
However, neither of the sentences really makes much sense.
