severity

severity is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being severe. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or state of being severe.
2. noun. Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
5. noun. Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
6. noun. excessive sternness

   "severity of character"

   "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"

   Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness

7. noun. extreme plainness

   Synonyms: austereness, severeness

8. noun. something hard to endure

   "the asperity of northern winters"

   Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness

9. noun. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

   Synonyms: badness, severeness

Synonyms

hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness, austereness, asperity, grimness, hardship, badness

Common word forms

severities

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