1.Definition: excessive sternness

"Severity of character", "The harshness of his punishment was inhuman", "The rigors of boot camp"

Related Noun(s):hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness

Category: General

2.Definition: the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

Related Noun(s):cruelness, cruelty

Category: General

3.Definition: the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

Related Noun(s):roughness

Category: General

4.Definition: the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

Related Noun(s):abrasiveness, scratchiness

Category: General