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

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severity

noun strictness, seriousness, harshness, austerity, rigour, toughness, hardness, stringency, sternness, severeness He was sickened by the severity of the sentence.

Translations

severity [sɪˈverɪtɪ] N

1. (= seriousness) [of illness] → gravedad f, seriedad f; [of pain] → intensidad f; [of attack] → dureza f

2. (= strictness) [of character, criticism] → severidad f

3. (= harshness) [of weather, conditions, winter] → rigor m

severity [sɪˈvɛrəti] n

[punishment, sentence] → sévérité f; [person, tone] → sévérité f

[injury, damage] → sévérité f

[winter, weather] → rigueur f

(= austerity) [appearance, design] → sévérité f

severity

n (= strictness, of person, appearance, style) → Strenge f; (= harshness, of critic, law, winter also, punishment, competition, test) → Härte f; (of criticism) → Schärfe f; (= seriousness, of expression, warning) → Ernst m; (of illness, injury, blow, crime, storm, loss) → Schwere f; (of pain, storm) → Stärke f, → Heftigkeit f; (of weather) → Rauheit f; the severity of the cold/drought → die große or schwere Kälte/Dürre; the severity of the frost → der starke or schwere Frost; severities → Härten pl

severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] n (gen) → gravità; (of punishment) → severità; (of criticism) → durezza; (of climate, weather) → rigore m; (of damage) → ingenza; (of pain) → intensità; (of symptoms) → acutezza