| slovo | definícia |
severity
(mass) | severity
- nepríjemný, drsný, závažnosť, prísnosť |
severity
(encz) | severity,náročnost n: j_polach@email.cz |
severity
(encz) | severity,přísnost |
severity
(encz) | severity,závažnost n: [bio.] [meteo.] Grino |
Severity
(gcide) | Severity \Se*ver"i*ty\, n.; pl. Severities. [L. severitas: cf.
F. s['e]v['e]rit['e].]
The quality or state of being severe. Specifically:
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(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.
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(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.
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(c) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as,
severity practiced on prisoners of war.
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(d) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of
a test.
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Confining myself to the severity of truth.
--Dryden.
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severity
(wn) | severity
n 1: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or
weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness]
2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour,
severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]
3: extreme plainness [syn: austereness, severity,
severeness]
4: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor,
rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency,
hardness, stiffness] |
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drought severity
(encz) | drought severity,závažnost sucha n: [meteo.] Grino |
Severity
(gcide) | Severity \Se*ver"i*ty\, n.; pl. Severities. [L. severitas: cf.
F. s['e]v['e]rit['e].]
The quality or state of being severe. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(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.
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(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.
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(c) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as,
severity practiced on prisoners of war.
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(d) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of
a test.
[1913 Webster]
Confining myself to the severity of truth.
--Dryden.
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