severeness

Plural: severenesses

Noun

• used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
• something hard to endure
• extreme plainness
• excessive sternness
• The property of being severe.

Examples

• Everyone was surprised by the severeness of the sentence the judge imposed.

Synonyms

asperity, austereness, badness, grimness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, stiffness