noun
- Used of the degree of something undesirable e. G. Pain or weather.
- synonyms: badness, severeness
- Something hard to endure.
- usage: "the asperity of northern winters"
- synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
- Extreme plainness.
- synonyms: austereness, severeness
- Excessive sternness.
- usage: "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
- synonyms: severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
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