severity
(noun)
noun
1. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
Similar word(s): badness, severeness
Definition categories: attribute, intensity, intensiveness
2. something hard to endure
Similar word(s): asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness
Definition categories: attribute, difficultness, difficulty
3. extreme plainness
Similar word(s): austereness, severeness
Definition categories: attribute, plainness
4. excessive sternness
- severity of character
Similar word(s): hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, stiffness
Definition categories: attribute, sternness, strictness
Sentences with severity as a noun:
- The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.