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US
/sɪˈvɛɹɪti/
]
[ UK /səvˈɛɹɪti/ ]
[ UK /səvˈɛɹɪti/ ]
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 severity In A Sentence
- The severity, universality, complexity of peasant burden overweight, is to determined fundamentally that solving peasant burden overweight needs long period of time and arduousness of problem.
- We analyzed more than 3000 infrared thermograms acquired from 1256 admitted patients and developed a thermo-visual diagnostic method for estimating the severity of intracranial hypertension.
- The severity of the decree seemed deadly to Tess.
- A prison sentence should match the severity of the crime.
- The Dative of Reference denotes the person _to whom a statement refers, of whom it is true_, or _to whom it is of interest; _ as, -- mihi ante oculōs versāris, _you hover before my eyes_ (lit. _hover before the eyes to me_); illī sevēritās amōrem nōn dēminuit, _in his case severity did not diminish love_ (lit. _to him severity did not diminish_); interclūdere inimīcīs commeātum, _to cut of the supplies of the enemy. New Latin Grammar
- There is unlikely to be to be a clinically significant difference in the severity of skull fracture.
- But the severity of even a fully penetrant condition like Huntington's disease seems to depend on not just genetic factors like the number of DNA repeats in the mutation but epigenetic factors like the sex of the parent who transmitted the mutation (Ridley et al. 1991). The Human Genome Project
- The severity and unpredictably of higher latitude and alpine habitats present special challenges to birds and mammals who live out some or all of their lives there.
- YAs reported symptom severity, symptom interference, and variations over time that were distinct from older patients.
- A positive correlation was observed between the gastric juice ammonium and severity of gastritis.