Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The quality or state of being severe.
- 2noun
Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
- 5noun
Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
- 6noun
excessive sternness
"severity of character"
"the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"
- 7noun
extreme plainness
Synonyms
- 8noun
something hard to endure
"the asperity of northern winters"
- 9noun
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
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