severity

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

Pronunciation

Noun

1. the state of being severe
2. the degree of something undesirable; badness

Translations

Severity may refer to:

• Severity (2008 video game), an upcoming video game
• a dimension for classifying seriousness for Technical support issues

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