NOUN
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something hard to endure
the asperity of northern winters - extreme plainness
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excessive sternness
the rigors of boot camp
severity of character
the harshness of his punishment was inhuman - used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
How To Use severeness In A Sentence
- So it’s not only the Bjork palynologic evidence that puts doubts on the severeness of the Younger Dryas which may or may not have been that much colder than the surrounding periods. Some Ice Cores in NAS – Antarctic « Climate Audit