severity

Noun
  1. Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather (synset 105043870)
    is a type of: intensity, intensiveness - high level or degree; the property of being intense
    subtypes:
    same as: badness, severeness
  2. Something hard to endure (synset 104717403)
    "the asperity of northern winters"
    is a type of: difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult
    subtypes: sternness - the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
    same as: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness
  3. Extreme plainness (synset 104705014)
    is a type of: plainness - the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
    same as: austereness, severeness
  4. Excessive sternness (synset 104647089)
    "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
    is a type of: sternness, strictness - uncompromising resolution
    same as: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness

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