severeness

noun

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

Similar word(s): badness, severity

Definition categories: attribute, intensity, intensiveness

2. something hard to endure

Similar word(s): asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severity

Definition categories: attribute, difficultness, difficulty

3. extreme plainness

Similar word(s): austereness, severity

Definition categories: attribute, plainness

4. excessive sternness

Similar word(s): hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severity, stiffness

Definition categories: attribute, sternness, strictness