SEVERITY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • excessive sternness
   Synonym(s)
   • hardness (what does hardness mean?)
   • harshness (what does harshness mean?)
   • inclemency (what does inclemency mean?)
   • rigor (what does rigor mean?)
   • rigour (what does rigour mean?)
   • stiffness (what does stiffness mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • severity of character
   • the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
   • the rigors of boot camp
   Hypernyms(s) severity is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • sternness (what does sternness mean?)
   • strictness (what does strictness mean?)
2. Meaning
   • something hard to endure
   Synonym(s)
   • asperity (what does asperity mean?)
   • grimness (what does grimness mean?)
   • hardship (what does hardship mean?)
   • rigor (what does rigor mean?)
   • rigorousness (what does rigorousness mean?)
   • rigour (what does rigour mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the asperity of northern winters
   Hypernyms(s) severity is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • difficulty (what does difficulty mean?)
   • difficultness (what does difficultness mean?)
3. Meaning
   • used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
   Synonym(s)
   • badness (what does badness mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) severity is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • intensity (what does intensity mean?)
   • intensiveness (what does intensiveness mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • seriousness (what does seriousness mean?)
   • distressfulness (what does distressfulness mean?)