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severity

noun
/sɪˈvɛɹ.ɪ.ti/UK/səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/US

Etymology

From Middle English severity, from Middle French severite (modern French sévérité), from Latin sevēritās. By surface analysis, severe + -ity.

  1. derived from sevēritās
  2. derived from severite
  3. inherited from severity

Definitions

  1. The state of being severe.

    • […] the fear of God whereof ' tis written Keeper : But not the fear of punishment for sin And I can see that the uncertainty In which we act is a severity , A cruelty , amounting to injustice That nothing but God's mercy can assuage . […]

  2. The degree of something undesirable

    The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.

    • The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.

The neighborhood

Derived

overseverity, unseverity

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for severity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA