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- Thesaurus|628
- Abbreviations|0
132 entries under severity topic. ×
| irascibility(sharpness, harshness) | |
| irritability(sharpness, harshness) | |
| meanness(sharpness, harshness) | |
| ordeal(harshness, conformity, strictness, conservatism) | |
| peevishness(sharpness, harshness) | |
| pitch(noun, violence, ferocity) | |
| privation(harshness, conformity, strictness, conservatism) | |
| prudence | |
| punctiliousness(harshness, conformity, strictness, conservatism) | |
| puritanism | |
| refraining abstinence(expression, strictness) | |
| savagery(noun, violence, ferocity) | |
| self-denial | |
| self-discipline | |
| sobriety(noun, importance, significance, gravity) | |
| somberness(noun, strictness, seriousness) | |
| sourness(sharpness, harshness, unfriendliness) | |
| stoicism | |
| suffering(harshness, conformity, strictness, conservatism) | |
| sullenness(sharpness, harshness) |
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