NOUN | attribute | sternness | the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding / forbidding |
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attribute | sternness, strictness | uncompromising resolution |
Sounds | ster'nahs; ster'nnahs | |
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Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... |
Meaning | The quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding / forbidding. | |
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Example | "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable" | |
Broader | asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness | Something hard to endure |
Spanish | severidad | |
Adjectives | stern | severely simple |
Meaning | uncompromising resolution. | |
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Synonym | strictness | |
Narrower | Puritanism | strictness and austerity in conduct and religion |
severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness | excessive sternness | |
Broader | unpermissiveness, restrictiveness | A lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits |
Spanish | austeridad, reciedumbre, rigurosidad, severidad | |
Catalan | austeritat, rigidesa, severitat | |
Adjectives | stern | severe and unremitting in making demands |
stern | not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty |
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