severeness meaning and definition

SEVERENESS noun

Definition of severeness (noun)

1. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
   • synonyms: badness, severity
2. something hard to endure
   • "the asperity of northern winters"
   • synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity
3. extreme plainness
   • synonyms: austereness, severity
4. 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, severity, stiffness