sternness

Noun
  1. The quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding (synset 104717666)
    "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable"
    is a type of: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity - something hard to endure
  2. Uncompromising resolution (synset 104646728)
    is a type of: restrictiveness, unpermissiveness - a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits
    same as: strictness

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