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SEVERENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessive sternness
Example:
the rigors of boot camp
Synonyms:
hardness; harshness; inclemency; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity; stiffness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("severeness" is a kind of...):
sternness; strictness (uncompromising resolution)
Derivation:
severe (unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extreme plainness
Synonyms:
austereness; severeness; severity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("severeness" is a kind of...):
plainness (the appearance of being plain and unpretentious)
Derivation:
severe (severely simple)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something hard to endure
Example:
the asperity of northern winters
Synonyms:
asperity; grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("severeness" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "severeness"):
sternness (the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding)
Derivation:
severe (intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
Synonyms:
badness; severeness; severity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("severeness" is a kind of...):
intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "severeness"):
foulness; raininess ((of weather) the badness of the weather)
distressfulness; seriousness (the quality of arousing fear or distress)
Derivation:
bad (very intense)
severe (causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm)
severe (intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality)
severe (very strong or vigorous)
