SEVERITY

• (noun) excessive sternness

  "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

• (noun) extreme plainness

  synonyms : austereness , severeness

• (noun) something hard to endure

  "the asperity of northern winters"

  synonyms : asperity , grimness , hardship , rigor , rigorousness , rigour , rigourousness , severeness

  People living in Iceland are accustomed to the asperity of the winter there. -added by naila_inlas

• (noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

  synonyms : badness , severeness

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