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severeness
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Noun severeness has 4 senses
- severeness(n = noun.attribute) badness, severity - used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather; Array is a kind of intensity, intensiveness
- severeness(n = noun.attribute) asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" is a kind of difficultness, difficulty
- severeness(n = noun.attribute) austereness, severity - extreme plainness; Array is a kind of plainness
- severeness(n = noun.attribute) hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, stiffness - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" is a kind of sternness, strictness
has particulars: foulness, raininess, distressfulness, seriousness
Derived forms adjective bad2, adjective severe5, adjective severe1, adjective severe2
has particulars: sternness
Derived form adjective severe1
Derived form adjective severe3
Derived form adjective severe4
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