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