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n. The state or quality of being severe.

n. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.

n. The state of being severe.

n. The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.

n. The quality or state of being severe.

n. Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness.

n. The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency.

n. Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment.

n. Exactness; rigorousness; strictness.

n. The character or state of being severe.

n. Extreme rigor; strictness; rigidity; harshness.

n. Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment: as, severity practised on prisoners of war.

n. In lit., art, etc., the quality of strict conformity to an ideal rule or standard; studied moderation; freedom from all exuberance or florid ornament; purity of line and form; austerity of style.

n. The quality or power of afflicting, distressing, or paining; extreme degree; extremity; keenness: as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.

n. Exactness; rigor; niceness: as, the severity of a test.

n. Strictness; rigid accuracy.

n. Synonyms and Asperity, Harshness, etc. (see acrimony), unkindness.—, , and Sharpness, keenness, force. See list under harshness.

n. something hard to endure

n. excessive sternness

n. extreme plainness

n. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

"She was the friend and guardian of my dear lady from her infancy; but your father could not endure what he called her severity, or forgive her opposition to his marriage with your mother."

strictness    sternness    plainness   

strictness    cruelty    violence    extremity    strenuousness    austerity    depth    hardness   

rigor    harshness    extremity    intensity    inclemency    exactness    rigorousness    strictness   

Charity    Verity    asperity    austerity    charity    clarity    dexterity    insularity    rarity    unpopularity   

cruelty    ferocity    dignity    intensity    firmness    violence    harshness    seriousness    tenderness    vigor