severity

se·ver·i·ty  (s-vr-t)

n. pl. se·ver·i·ties

1. The state or quality of being severe.

2. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	severity - used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather severeness, badness intensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intense raininess, foulness - (of weather) the badness of the weather; "they were wearied with the foulness of the weather" distressfulness, seriousness - the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
	2.	severity - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" asperity, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, rigour, grimness, hardship difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" sternness - the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable"
	3.	severity - extreme plainness austereness, severeness plainness - the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
	4.	severity - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" inclemency, rigorousness, rigourousness, rigour, rigor, harshness, severeness, stiffness, hardness sternness, strictness - uncompromising resolution

---

severity

noun strictness, seriousness, harshness, austerity, rigour, toughness, hardness, stringency, sternness, severeness

Translations

severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] n → severidad f; gravedad f; intensidad f

severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] n → sévérité f; gravité f; rigueur f

severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] severe n (gravity) (of punishment) → Härte f: (of manner, voice, winter) → Strenge f: (of weather) → Rauheit f;

(austerity) → Strenge f

severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] n → severità; gravità; [of weather] → rigore m