meaning of severity

1. The quality or state of being severe.
2.
Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
3.
The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.
4.
Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
5.
Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
6.
excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot ">camp"


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