Found 3 items, similar to severity.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: severity
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: severity
severity
n 1: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or
weather [syn:
badness]
2: something hard to endure;
“the asperity of northern winters”
[syn:
asperity,
grimness,
hardship,
rigor,
rigour,
rigorousness]
3: excessive sternness;
“severity of character”;
“the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman”;
“the rigors of boot camp”
[syn:
harshness,
rigor,
rigour,
inclemency,
hardness,
stiffness]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Severity
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:
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(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.
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(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.
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(c) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as,
severity practiced on prisoners of war.
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(d) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of
a test.
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Confining myself to the severity of truth.
--Dryden.
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