noun
- The quality of being valid and rigorous.
- Something hard to endure.
- usage: "the asperity of northern winters"
- synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
- Excessive sternness.
- usage: "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
- synonyms: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
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