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.