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severeness

DEFINITIONS OF: severeness

1

n excessive sternness

Synonyms:
hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, stiffness
Type of:
sternness, strictness
uncompromising resolution

n extreme plainness

Synonyms:
austereness, severity
Type of:
plainness
the appearance of being plain and unpretentious

n something hard to endure

Synonyms:
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity
Types:
sternness
the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
Type of:
difficultness, difficulty
the quality of being difficult

n used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

Synonyms:
badness, severity
Types:
foulness, raininess
(of weather) the badness of the weather
distressfulness, seriousness
the quality of arousing fear or distress
Type of:
intensity, intensiveness
high level or degree; the property of being intense
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