'Severity' definitions:
Definition of 'severity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness]
noun
Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]
noun
Extreme plainness [syn: austereness, severity, severeness]
noun
Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]
Definition of 'Severity'
From: GCIDE
- Severity \Se*ver"i*ty\, n.; pl. Severities. [L. severitas: cf. F. s['e]v['e]rit['e].] The quality or state of being severe. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. "Strict age, and sour severity." --Milton. [1913 Webster] (b) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter. [1913 Webster] (c) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war. [1913 Webster] (d) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test. [1913 Webster]
- Confining myself to the severity of truth. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'severity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abruptness,
- absolute zero,
- absoluteness,
- abusiveness,
- accuracy,
- acerbity,
- acidity,
- acidulousness,
- acridity,
- acrimony,
- acuteness,
- aggressiveness,
- algidity,
- aloofness,
- animality,
- asceticism,
- asperity,
- astringency,
- atrocity,
- attention to fact,
- austerity,
- authoritarianism,
- baldness,
- barbarity,
- bareness,
- bearishness,
- beastliness,
- bite,
- bitingness,
- bitterness,
- bleakness,
- bloodlust,
- bluntness,
- boorishness,
- brashness,
- briskness,
- brusqueness,
- brusquerie,
- brutality,
- burdensomeness,
- candor,
- care for truth,
- causticity,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- churlishness,
- cold,
- coldness,
- common speech,
- cool,
- coolness,
- coolth,
- correctness,
- crispness,
- crudeness,
- cruelty,
- crustiness,
- cryogenics,
- cryology,
- curtness,
- cuttingness,
- decrease in temperature,
- delicacy,
- demandingness,
- despotism,
- destructiveness,
- directness,
- discipline,
- edge,
- elementarity,
- exactingness,
- exactitude,
- exactness,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- faithfulness,
- fastidiousness,
- faultlessness,
- ferociousness,
- ferocity,
- fidelity,
- fierceness,
- fineness,
- flawlessness,
- flintiness,
- force,
- frankness,
- freezing point,
- freshness,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- fundamentality,
- furiousness,
- fury,
- gelidity,
- gravity,
- grievousness,
- grimness,
- grip,
- gruffness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- homespun,
- homogeneity,
- household words,
- iciness,
- impetuosity,
- inclemency,
- inexorability,
- inexorableness,
- inflexibility,
- inhumanity,
- inornateness,
- integrity,
- intense cold,
- intensity,
- keenness,
- leanness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- low temperature,
- malignity,
- mathematical precision,
- matter-of-factness,
- meanness,
- mercilessness,
- meticulousness,
- mindlessness,
- modesty,
- monasticism,
- monism,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- murderousness,
- nastiness,
- naturalness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- nip,
- nippiness,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- oneness,
- onerousness,
- openness,
- oppression,
- oppressiveness,
- painfulness,
- perfection,
- piquancy,
- pitilessness,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- poignancy,
- point,
- preciseness,
- precision,
- primitiveness,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- pungency,
- punishment,
- punitiveness,
- purity,
- rawness,
- refinement,
- regimentation,
- relentlessness,
- restrainedness,
- right,
- rightness,
- rigid discipline,
- rigidity,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- rustic style,
- ruthlessness,
- savagery,
- seriousness,
- sharp air,
- sharpness,
- shortness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- singleness,
- soberness,
- solemnity,
- sourness,
- spareness,
- sparseness,
- Spartan simplicity,
- Spartanism,
- starkness,
- sternness,
- sting,
- storminess,
- straightforwardness,
- strictness,
- stridency,
- stringency,
- subtlety,
- surliness,
- tartness,
- teeth,
- tempestuousness,
- terrorism,
- textualism,
- the letter,
- toughness,
- trenchancy,
- truculence,
- tyranny,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectedness,
- unelaborateness,
- unfanciness,
- unfussiness,
- ungentleness,
- uniformity,
- unimaginativeness,
- unity,
- unmixedness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unsophistication,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- venom,
- vernacular,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- virulence
Words containing 'Severity'
- In several,
- Sever,
- Severable,
- Several,
- Severalities,
- Severality,
- Severalize,
- Severally,
- Severance,
- Severe,
- Severed,
- Severely,
- Severeness,
- Severer,
- Severing,
- Severities,
- Joint and several,
- Severance, CO,
- Severance, KS,
- severable contract,
- severance agreement,
- several-seeded,
- severe combined immunodeficiency,
- severe acute respiratory syndrome,
- severe combined immunodeficiency disease