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severitynoun the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism)even though no one expected the film to be a hit with the critics, the director was taken aback by the severity of the criticism exactingness, hardness, harshness, inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, sternness, strictness, stringency callousness, hard-heartedness, implacability, obduracy, obdurateness, pitilessnessdourness, gruffnessasceticism, austereness, austerity, monasticismdetermination, firmness, resolve, steadfastnessobstinacy, stubbornness flexibility, gentleness, laxness, mildness forbearance, indulgence, kindness, lenience, patience, softness, tenderness, toleranceresponsiveness, willingnesscompliance, pliability, pliancy in 1530 |