used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
something hard to endure; the asperity of northern winters
[ Syn: asperity , grimness , hardship , rigor , rigour , severity , rigorousness , rigourousness ]
extreme plainness
[ Syn: austereness , severity ]
excessive sternness; severity of character; the harshness of his punishment was inhuman; the rigors of boot camp
[ Syn: severity , harshness , rigor , rigour , rigorousness , rigourousness , inclemency , hardness , stiffness ]