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severity n. [
badness, severeness] used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
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severity n. [
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
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severity n. [
austereness, severeness] extreme plainness
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severity n. [
severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness] excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
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