severity

(n) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather severeness, badness,
(n) something hard to endure
- the asperity of northern winters
asperity, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, grimness, hardship, rigour, severeness,
(n) extreme plainness austereness, severeness,
(n) excessive sternness
- severity of character
- the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
- the rigors of boot camp
inclemency, rigorousness, rigourousness, rigor, rigour, harshness, severeness, hardness, stiffness,

severeness badness asperity rigor rigorousness rigourousness grimness hardship rigour austereness inclemency harshness hardness stiffness

severing