What does severity mean?

Definitions for severity
səˈvɛr ɪ tisever·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. badness, severity, severenessnoun

    used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

  2. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousnessnoun

    something hard to endure

    "the asperity of northern winters"

  3. austereness, severity, severenessnoun

    extreme plainness

  4. severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffnessnoun

    excessive sternness

    "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

Wiktionary

  1. severitynoun

    The state of being severe.

  2. severitynoun

    The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.

    The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Severitynoun

    Etymology: severitas, Latin.

    I laugh to see your ladyship so fond,
    To think that you have ought but Talbot’s shadow
    Whereon to practise your severity. William Shakespeare.

    He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock
    With rigorous hands; he hath resisted law,
    And therefore law shall scorn him further trial
    Than the severity of publick power,
    Which he so sets at nought. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Never were so great rebellions expiated with so little blood, as for the severity used upon those taken in Kent, it was but upon a scum of people. Francis Bacon.

    There is a difference between an ecclesiastical censure and severity: for under a censure we only include excommunication, suspension, and an interdict; but under an ecclesiastical severity every other punishment of the church is intended; but according to some, a censure and a severity is the same. John Ayliffe.

    Though nature hath given insects sagacity to avoid the winter cold, yet its severity finds them out. Matthew Hale, Orig. of Mank.

    Confining myself to the severity of truth, becoming, I must pass over many instances of your military skill. Dryd.

ChatGPT

  1. severity

    The extent of seriousness or intensity of something such as an event, situation, disease, or condition. Severity indicates the degree of harm or damage, or the level of difficulty or challenge involved.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Severitynoun

    the quality or state of being severe

  2. Severitynoun

    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. Severitynoun

    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. Severitynoun

    harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war

  5. Severitynoun

    exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test

  6. Etymology: [L. severitas: cf. F. svrit.]

Wikidata

  1. Severity

    Severity is a canceled first-person shooter video game that was being developed for Microsoft Windows and two console systems. Funded by the Cyberathlete Professional League's parent company, it was being developed by Escalation Studios. The planned features of the game included a blend of different FPS gameplay styles, separating them as individual game-modes, as well as cross-platform multiplayer gameplay with Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Severity was announced by game developer John Romero in a 2006 video. Despite the Cyberathlete Professional League announcing that it was ceasing tournament operations on 13 March 2008, and then being acquired by an investment group based in the United Arab Emirates on 25 August 2008, Tom Mustaine, the director of Escalation Studios, said that the studio would continue to work on Severity, although it was not their main focus at the time. Angel Munoz, founder of the Cyberathlete Professional League, confirmed in an October 2009 interview that production on Severity had ended because no publisher had shown interest.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of severity in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of severity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of severity in a Sentence

  1. Rami Hashish:

    Upwards of 60 % of injuries in mosh pits are to the head -- these can range in severity from a bump or bruise to a traumatic brain injury. And can be the result of flailing arms, getting pushed into another person, or falling to the ground.

  2. Jason Miller:

    Antifa blaming is relatively rare outside the extreme fringe, what I've seen much more of is an effort to minimize the severity of what happened and/or the role of President Trump and other elite conservatives.

  3. Francis Collins:

    We still don't really know -- and there's some controversy about this -- whether Omicron causes the same kind of severity of disease or whether it's a somewhat milder form of the illness.

  4. Zhang Dongshuo:

    Chinese law stipulates that during an appeal, only if new evidence is discovered and retried can there be an increase in the severity of a sentence, they are not new facts so you cannot increase the severity of the sentence.

  5. Hazlitt:

    Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

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