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