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English noun: severity | |||
| 1. | severity (attribute) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | ||
| Synonyms | badness, severeness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intensity, intensiveness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | distressfulness, foulness, raininess, seriousness | ||
| 2. | severity (attribute) something hard to endure | ||
| Samples | The asperity of northern winters. | ||
| Synonyms | asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | difficultness, difficulty | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | sternness | ||
| 3. | severity (attribute) extreme plainness | ||
| Synonyms | austereness, severeness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | plainness | ||
| 4. | severity (attribute) excessive sternness | ||
| Samples | Severity of character. The harshness of his punishment was inhuman. The rigors of boot camp. | ||
| Synonyms | hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sternness, strictness | ||
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