Defenition of the word severity
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Defenition of the word severity
- something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
- used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
- excessive sternness; "the severity of his punishment was inhuman"
- excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
- excessive sternness
- extreme plainness
- something hard to endure
Synonyms for the word severity
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- asperity
- badness
- grimness
- hardness
- hardship
- harshness
- inclemency
- rigor
- rigorousness
- rigour
- stiffness
Hyponyms for the word severity
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- distressfulness
- foulness
- raininess
- seriousness
- sternness
Hypernyms for the word severity
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- difficultness
- difficulty
- intensity
- intensiveness
- plainness
- sternness
- strictness
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