severeness

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noun

1. something hard to endure
- the asperity of northern winters
• Syn:
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour,
severity, rigorousness, rigourousness
• Derivationally related forms:
severe, grim (for: grimness)
• Hypernyms:
difficulty, difficultness
• Hyponyms:
sternness
2. extreme plainness
• Syn:
austereness, severity
• Derivationally related forms:
severe, austere (for: austereness)
• Hypernyms:
plainness
3. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
• Syn:
badness, severity
• Derivationally related forms:
bad, severe, severe (for: severity), bad (for: badness)
• Hypernyms:
intensity, intensiveness
• Hyponyms:
foulness, raininess, seriousness, distressfulness
4. excessive sternness
- severity of character
- the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
- the rigors of boot camp
• Syn:
severity, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness,
rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
• Derivationally related forms:
hard (for: hardness), inclement (for: inclemency), rigorous (for: rigorousness), rigorous (for: rigor), harsh (for: harshness), severe, severe (for: severity)
• Hypernyms:
sternness, strictness