Definitions for severity
Overview of noun severity
The noun severity has 4 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) badness, severity, severeness
(used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather)
2. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
(something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters")
3. austereness, severity, severeness
(extreme plainness)
4. 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")
