About The Word Severity
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Severity
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What's The Definition Of Severity?
[n] excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[n] something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [n] used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather Synonyms | Synonyms for Severity: asperity | badness | grimness | hardness | hardship | harshness | inclemency | rigor | rigorousness | rigour | stiffness Related Terms | Find terms related to Severity: See Also | difficultness | difficulty | distressfulness | intensity | intensiveness | seriousness | sternness | strictness Severity In Webster's Dictionary \Se*ver"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Severities}. [L. severitas: cf.
F. s['e]v['e]rit['e].]
The quality or state of being severe. Specifically:
(a) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor;
harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof;
severity of discipline or government; severity of
penalties. ``Strict age, and sour severity.'' --Milton.
(b) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme
degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the
severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or
heat; the severity of the winter.
(c) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as,
severity practiced on prisoners of war.
(d) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of
a test.
Confining myself to the severity of truth.
--Dryden.
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