English-Thai Dictionary

severity

N ความรุนแรง  ความเข้มงวด  ความ กวดขัน  ความ เคร่ง  ความยากลำบาก  ความแม่นยำ  การ ลงโทษ อย่างรุนแรง  asperity sharpness unkindness hardheartedness kindness pity softness kwam-run-rang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEVERITY

n.[L. sveritas.] 1. Harshness; rigor; austerity; want of mildness or indulgence; as the severity of a reprimand or reproof.
2. Rigor; extreme strictness; as the severity of discipline or government.
3. Excessive figor; extreme degree or amount. Severity of penalties or punishments often defeats the object by exciting pity.
4. Extremity; quality or power of distressing; as the severity of pain or anguish.
5. Extreme degree; as the severity of cold or heat.
6. Extreme coldness or inclemency; as the severity of the winter.
7. Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as severity practiced on prisoners of war.
8. Exactness; rigor; niceness; as the severity of a test.
9. Strictness; rigid accuracy.
Confining myself to the severity of truth. Dryden.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SEVERITY

Se *ver "i *ty, n.; pl. Severities. Etym: [L. severitas: cf. F.sévérité.]

 

Defn: The quality or state of being severe. Specifically: -- (a ) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. "Strict age, and sour severity. "Milton. (b ) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter. (c ) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war. (d ) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test. Confining myself to the severity of truth. Dryden.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

severity

se ver i ty |səˈveritē sɪˈverəti | ▶noun the fact or condition of being severe: sentences should reflect the severity of the crime | hay fever symptoms vary in severity. she stared at me with mock severity.

 

Oxford Dictionary

severity

se ¦ver |ity |sɪˈvɛrɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the fact or condition of being severe: sentences should reflect the severity of the crime | hay fever symptoms vary in severity. she stared at me with mock severity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

severity

severity noun 1 the severity of the disease: acuteness, seriousness, gravity, graveness, severeness, grievousness, extremity; danger, dangerousness. 2 global warming was blamed for an increase in the severity of storms | the pain increased in severity: strength, intensity, ferocity, fierceness, violence, power, powerfulness, force, forcefulness. 3 the severity of the winter may have killed the grass: harshness, severeness, cold, coldness, bleakness, extremity. ANTONYMS mildness. 4 the Emperor was often on bad terms with his younger brothers, whom he treated with great severity | the severity of the sentence caused surprise: harshness, strictness, hardness, sternness, toughness, rigorousness, rigour, stringency, inflexibility, relentlessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness; brutality, inhumanity, cruelty, savagery. ANTONYMS leniency. 5 Robyn flinched at the severity of his expression: sternness, dourness, grimness, sombreness, unfriendliness, graveness, gravity, soberness, seriousness, austereness, austerity, stiffness, flintiness, stoniness, steeliness; coldness, frostiness, iciness, frigidity. ANTONYMS geniality. 6 a white, filmy gown that contrasted with the black severity of her own attire: plainness, simplicity, restraint, lack of adornment, lack of decoration, lack of ornament, lack of embellishment, austerity, spareness, starkness; functionalism. ANTONYMS elaboration.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

severity

se ver i ty /sɪvérəti /名詞 複 -ties 1 U (症状が )重いこと, 深刻であること ; 厳しさ, 厳格 ; 地味さ, 簡素 .2 C 〖通例 -ties 〗厳しい経験 [行為 ].