Textual thesaurus for "severeness"

(noun) rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severity, inclemency, hardness, harshness, stiffness

excessive sternness

severity of character; the harshness of his punishment was inhuman; the rigors of boot camp

(noun) severity, austereness

extreme plainness

(noun) asperity, severity, hardship, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness

something hard to endure

the asperity of northern winters

(noun) badness, severity

used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather