severity
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(noun) excessive sternness; "the severity of his punishment was inhuman" |
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Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, stiffness |
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Related Words: sternness, strictness |
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(noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather |
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Synonyms: badness |
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Related Words: distressfulness, intensity, intensiveness, seriousness |
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(noun) something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" |
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Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour |
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Related Words: difficultness, difficulty |
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