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severity
Found in thesaurus: intensity, intensiveness, difficulty, difficultness, plainness, strictness, sternness
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severity
n.
seriousness; acuteness; difficulty, rigorousness; simplicity, plainness; harshness, strictness
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Severity
Severity may refer to:
- Severity (video game), a canceled video game
- a dimension for classifying seriousness for Technical support issues
- leprosy- being categorized as paucibacillary and multibacillary.
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severity
Noun
1. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
(synonym) badness
(hypernym) intensity, intensiveness
(hyponym) seriousness, distressfulness
2. something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
(synonym) asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, rigorousness
(hypernym) difficulty, difficultness
3. excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
(synonym) harshness, rigor, rigour, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
(hypernym) sternness, strictness
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severity
n.
přísnost; závažnost
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Severity
(n.)
The quality or state of being severe.
The quality or state of being severe.
(n.)
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.
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.
(n.)
Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
(n.)
Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
(n.)
Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
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