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n. seriousness; acuteness; difficulty, rigorousness; simplicity, plainness; harshness, strictness

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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

n. přísnost; závažnost

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.