severity

Noun	1.	severity - used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather badness intensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intense distressfulness, seriousness - the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
	2.	severity - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" asperity, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, grimness, hardship difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
	3.	severity - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" inclemency, rigor, rigour, stiffness, hardness, harshness sternness, strictness - uncompromising resolution

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