severity
Meanings
Plural: severities
Noun
- used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
- something hard to endure
- extreme plainness
- excessive sternness
- "severity of character"
- The state of being severe.
- The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.
Origin / Etymology
From severe + -ity, from Middle French severite, from Latin severitas.
Synonyms
asperity, austereness, badness, grimness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness
Scrabble Score: 14
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