severity

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
badness, severeness
• Derivationally related forms:
bad (for: severeness), severe (for: severeness), severe, bad (for: badness)
• Hypernyms:
intensity, intensiveness
• Hyponyms:
foulness, raininess, seriousness, distressfulness
2. something hard to endure
- the asperity of northern winters
• Syn:
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour,
severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
• Derivationally related forms:
severe (for: severeness), grim (for: grimness)
• Hypernyms:
difficulty, difficultness
• Hyponyms:
sternness
3. extreme plainness
• Syn:
austereness, severeness
• Derivationally related forms:
severe (for: severeness), austere (for: austereness)
• Hypernyms:
plainness
4. excessive sternness
- severity of character
- the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
- the rigors of boot camp
• Syn:
severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness,
rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
• Derivationally related forms:
hard (for: hardness), inclement (for: inclemency), rigorous (for: rigorousness), rigorous (for: rigor), harsh (for: harshness), severe (for: severeness), severe
• Hypernyms:
sternness, strictness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  austereness, severeness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, badness