severeness

Other forms of severeness

plural

severenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about severeness

What does severeness mean?

severeness means "used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in severeness?

severeness has 4 syllables: se-ve-re-ness. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for severeness?

Close synonyms include badness, severity, asperity, grimness, hardship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is severeness a common word?

severeness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.