Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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severity | Yes | No | No | No |
sternness | Yes | No | No | No |
severity (noun) | sternness (noun) |
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excessive sternness | uncompromising resolution |
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding |
something hard to endure | |
extreme plainness |