2. severity austere simplicity, as of style or taste.
3. severity intensity or sharpness, as of cold or pain.
4. severity grievousness; hard or trying character or effect.
5. severity rigid exactness or accuracy.
6. severity an instance of strict or severe behavior, punishment, etc.
Etymology: (1475–85; < L sevēritās)
Definition of 'Severity'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)badness, severity, severeness used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
2. (noun)asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness something hard to endure "the asperity of northern winters"
4. (noun)severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness excessive sternness "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
Definition of 'Severity'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Severity the quality or state of being severe
2. (noun)Severity gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties
3. (noun)Severity the quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter
4. (noun)Severity harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war
5. (noun)Severity exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test
Definitions of Severity 
Afrikaans: eenvoud, ergheid
Arabic: شِدَّه، قَسْوَه
Bulgarian: строгост
Brazilian: severidade
Czech: přísnost; strohost
German: die Strenge
Danish: alvor; strenghed; enkelhe
Greek: σοβαρότητα, αυστηρότητα, 
Spanish: severidad
Estonian: karmus, lihtsus
Farsi: سختي
Finnish: vakavuus
French: sévérité
Hebrew: חוּמרָה
Hindi: कठोरता, सख्ती
Croatian: strogost, oštrina
Hungarian: komolyság
Indonesian: kekerasan
Icelandic: harka; einfaldleiki
Italian: severità
Japanese: 厳しさ
Korean: 격렬, 혹독
Lithuanian: sunkumas, griežtumas
Latvian: smagums; bardzība; stingr
Malay: kekerasan
Dutch: strengheid
Norwegian: strenghet, hard behandlin
Polish: srogość, surowa prostota
Persian: سختي
Pashto: كلكوالى، شدت: بدسلوكى
Portuguese: severidade
Romanian: severitate
Russian: суровость; строгость
Slovak: prísnosť; strohosť
Slovenian: strogost
Serbian: strogost
Swedish: stränghet
Thai: ความเข้มงวด; ความรุนแรง
Turkish: şiddet, ciddiyet
Taiwanese: 嚴重，樸素
Ukrainian: суворість; жорстокість
Urdu: شدت
Vietnamese: tính giản dị, khốc liệt
Chinese: 严重，朴素
