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Severity (Noun)

Meaning 1

Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather.

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Synonyms

  • Badness
  • Severeness

Hypernyms

  • Intensity

Hyponyms

  • Foulness
  • Seriousness

Related Words

  • Severe (adjective)

Meaning 2

Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters".

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Synonyms

  • Rigor
  • Grimness
  • Hardship
  • Rigour
  • Rigorousness
  • Rigourousness
  • Asperity
  • Severeness

Hypernyms

  • Difficultness
  • Difficulty

Hyponyms

  • Sternness

Meaning 3

Extreme plainness.

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Synonyms

  • Austereness
  • Severeness

Hypernyms

  • Plainness

Meaning 4

Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp".

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Synonyms

  • Stiffness
  • Rigor
  • Harshness
  • Rigour
  • Inclemency
  • Rigorousness
  • Rigourousness
  • Severeness
  • Hardness

Hypernyms

  • Strictness

Related Words

  • Severe (adjective)
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