Definitions of severeness
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excessive sternness
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synonyms:
austerity, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, stiffness
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type of:
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sternness, strictness
uncompromising resolution
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sternness, strictness
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extreme plainness
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synonyms:
austereness, austerity, severity
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plainness
the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
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plainness
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something hard to endure
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synonyms:
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity
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sternness
the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
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difficultness, difficulty
the quality of being difficult
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sternness
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used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
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foulness, raininess
(of weather) the badness of the weather
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distressfulness, seriousness
the quality of arousing fear or distress
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intensity, intensiveness
high level or degree; the property of being intense
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foulness, raininess
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