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severity
noun
excessive sternness
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 8
- Starts with
- S
- Ends with
- Y
- Contains
- EVERIT
- Scrabble score
- 14
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
səˈvɛɹɨti
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Meaning
Definitions
noun
excessive sternness
“severity of character”
noun
extreme plainness
noun
something hard to endure
“the asperity of northern winters”
noun
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
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Example Sentences
severity of character
the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
the rigors of boot camp
the asperity of northern winters
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