Synonyms for severity

Noun

1. badness, severity, intensity, intensiveness

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

2. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness, difficulty, difficultness

usage: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

3. severity, harshness, rigor, rigour, inclemency, hardness, stiffness, sternness, strictness

usage: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"