severity   (Sound)

The noun severity has 4 senses

• badness, severity, severeness -- (used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather)


• asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness -- (something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters")


• austereness, severity, severeness -- (extreme plainness)


• severity, 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")