sternness

Definition of sternness

Nouns

the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
"the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable"
Type of:
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity
something hard to endure
uncompromising resolution
Synonyms:
strictness
Types:
Puritanism
strictness and austerity in conduct and religion
hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness
excessive sternness
Type of:
restrictiveness, unpermissiveness
a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits

Vocabulary Lists for sternness

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