sternness
(noun)
noun
1. the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
- the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable
Definition categories: attribute, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity
2. uncompromising resolution
Similar word(s): strictness
Definition categories: attribute, restrictiveness, unpermissiveness