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severity

/ severity /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
excessive sternness
"severity of character"
"the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"
"the rigors of boot camp"
Type of:
sternness strictness
noun Sense 2
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
Type of:
intensity intensiveness
Kinds of:
seriousness distressfulness
noun Sense 3
something hard to endure
"the asperity of northern winters"
Type of:
difficulty difficultness
Semantic Complexity
47%
Sense Count
3
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
8
Times Searched
2
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sternness strictness intensity intensiveness seriousness distressfulness difficulty difficultness