| 单词 | severity |
| 释义 | severity (once / 512 pages) n Severity is a plain, no-frills hardness––or the degree of hardness. You might talk about the severity of the northern winter, or the severity of your grandfather's discipline. Severity, with its root in severe, has several nuances. It can mean a hardship, like war’s severity. It also refers to an extreme plainness. Think of the severity of Amish life: no phones, cars, or other modern technology. And you might use it to describe your math teacher’s manner: his severity is indicated by his short, clipped sentences, angry stare, and propensity to fail students without mercy. WORD FAMILYseverity: severities+/severe: severely, severeness, severer, severest, severity USAGE EXAMPLESDepending on the severity of these symptoms, patients may need to delay treatment and begin a course of steroids and or discontinue the drug immediately. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) The theater underlined the severity of the offense with a Facebook posting of the production’s new orchestral director alongside Santa Claus. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) The law reduces the severity of some drug charges and changes sentencing guidelines. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n excessive sternness severity of character Syn|Hyper hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness sternness, strictness uncompromising resolution 2n extreme plainness Syn|Hyper austereness, severeness plainness the appearance of being plain and unpretentious 3n something hard to endure Syn|Hypo|Hyper asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness sternness the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding difficultness, difficulty the quality of being difficult 4n used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather Syn|Hypo|Hyper badness, severeness foulness, raininess (of weather) the badness of the weather distressfulness, seriousnessthe quality of arousing fear or distress intensity, intensiveness high level or degree; the property of being intense |
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