severity
英 [sɪ'verɪtɪ]
美[sə'vɛrəti]
- n. 严重；严格；猛烈
英英释意
- 1. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
- 2. something hard to endure;
- "the asperity of northern winters"
- 3. excessive sternness;
- "severity of character"
- "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"
- "the rigors of boot camp"