| NOUN | attribute | severity, badness, severeness | used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather |
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| attribute | severity, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness | something hard to endure | |
| attribute | severity, austereness, severeness | extreme / extreme plainness | |
| attribute | severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness | excessive sternness |
| Sounds | sihveh'rihtiy | |
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| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather. | |
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| Synonyms | badness, severeness | |
| Narrower | foulness, raininess | (of weather) the badness of the weather |
| seriousness, distressfulness | The quality of arousing fear or distress | |
| Broader | intensity, intensiveness | high level or degree |
| Spanish | agudeza, gravedad, seriedad, severidad | |
| Catalan | agudesa, gravetat, serietat, severitat | |
| Adjectives | severe | very bad in degree or extent |
| severe | intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality | |
| Meaning | Something hard to endure. | |
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| Synonyms | asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness | |
| Narrower | sternness | The quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding / forbidding |
| Broader | difficulty, difficultness | The quality of being difficult |
| Spanish | adustez, rigor, rigurosidad, severidad | |
| Catalan | adustesa, dificultats, rigor, severitat | |
| Meaning | extreme / extreme plainness. | |
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| Synonyms | austereness, severeness | |
| Broader | plainness | The appearance of being plain and unpretentious |
| Spanish | austeridad | |
| Catalan | austeritat | |
| Meaning | excessive sternness. | |
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| Example | "severity of character" | |
| Synonyms | severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness | |
| Broader | sternness, strictness | uncompromising resolution |
| Spanish | adustez, austeridad, dureza, inclemencia, rigidez, rigor, rigurosidad, severidad | |
| Catalan | inclemència, rigor | |
| Adjectives | severe | unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment |
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