severity

n 1: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or

weather [syn: {badness}]

2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

[syn: {asperity}, {grimness}, {hardship}, {rigor}, {rigour},

{rigorousness}]

3: excessive sternness; "the severity of his punishment was

inhuman" [syn: {harshness}, {inclemency}, {hardness}, {stiffness}]