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Definition of Severeness

1. Noun. Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather.

2. Noun. Something hard to endure. "The asperity of northern winters"

3. Noun. Extreme plainness.

4. Noun. Excessive sternness. "The rigors of boot camp"

Definition of Severeness

1. Noun. The property of being severe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Severeness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Severeness

severance severance agreement severance pay severance payment severance tax severances severaunce severe severe acute respiratory syndrome severe combined immunodeficiency disease

severe combined immunodeficient mice severe postanoxic encephalopathy severed severely severeness severenesses severer severest severeth severies

severin severing severings severities severity severity of illness index severs severy seviche

Literary usage of Severeness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Headache and Its Materia Medica by Benoni F. Underwood (1889)
"Feeling as if the head were compressed in a vise, and that it would burst open from the severeness of the pain. Face bloated and red, with pulsating pain in ..."

2. The Works of the Rev. William Bridge by William Bridge (1845)
"Consider God's severeness to Adam in eating the forbidden fruit; and his severeness to Moses for a word, that for one word God would not let him enter into ..."

3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1868)
"Here Laura's face assumed that gravity and severeness which it always wore when Lady Clara's name was mentioned, and the conversation took another turn. ..."

4. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"... and that without any great occasion, excepting to free myself from the imputation of severeness, but now your letter 1ms given more matter to write, ..."

5. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1908)
"Professor Davis: I should say probably it might, depending upon the severeness of the winter. Without any doubt the soil would freeze deeper without the ..."

6. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"Sot'ten-ness State of beinar rotten, s. Stern'nesa Severeness ; harshness, s. Btab'born-net-t Obstinacy; ..."

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