severity

/sɪvˈɛɹɪti/ · 4 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
2. something hard to endure
   “the asperity of northern winters”
3. extreme plainness
4. excessive sternness
   “severity of character”

Synonyms for severity

• badness
• severeness
• asperity
• grimness
• hardship
• rigor
• rigour
• rigorousness
• rigourousness
• austereness
• harshness
• inclemency
• hardness
• stiffness

Words that rhyme with severity

• charity
• asperity
• austerity
• insularity
• unpopularity
• vulgarity
• garrity
• gerety
• gerrity
• varity