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sternnessnoun the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism)the company's new president has a reputation for granitelike sternness and monkish austerity exactingness, hardness, harshness, inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, severity, 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 |