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Sternness synonyms

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austerity
The quality or condition of being austere
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  1. The quality or condition of being austere
  2. An austere act, habit, practice, or manner
  3. Severe and rigid economy:
hardness
The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
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  1. The state or quality of being hard (in various senses)
  2. A measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched. Hardness is measured on the Mohs scale.
  3. The relative resistance of a metal or other material to denting, scratching, or bending.
harshness
The quality of being harsh.
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  1. The quality of being harsh.
rigidity
The quality or state of being rigid.
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  1. The quality or state of being rigid.
  2. In Economics: synonym for stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
  3. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
rigor
Strictness or severity, as in action or judgment:
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  1. Strictness or severity, as in action or judgment:
  2. (Medicine) Shivering or trembling, as caused by a chill.
  3. Harshness or severity
severity
Rigid accuracy
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  1. Rigid accuracy
  2. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.
  3. Strictness; harshness
strictness
(Countable) The result or product of being strict.
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  1. (Countable) The result or product of being strict.
  2. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
stringency
A scarcity of money or credit
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  1. A scarcity of money or credit
  2. A rigorous imposition of standards
  3. The quality or state of being stringent; strictness; severity
toughness
(Uncountable) The state of being tough
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  1. (Uncountable) The state of being tough
  2. (Physics, of a metal) Resistance to fracture when stressed
  3. A formidable difficulty
Find another word for sternness. In this page you can discover 11 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sternness, like: austerity, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, severity, strictness, stringency, toughness and easy.

Sentence Examples

  • To be just with sternness was in his eyes a duty.

  • There is also an unrelieved sternness, which pains us by its contrast with Isa.

  • Diirer's designs, drawn with the pen in pale lilac, pink and green, show an inexhaustible richness of invention and an airy freedom and playfulness of hand beyond what could be surmised from the sternness of those studies which he made direct from life and nature.

  • His father was reserved, undemonstrative even to the pitch of chilling sternness, and among young Mill's comrades contempt of feeling was almost a watchword.

  • Of all generals Wellington was the last to waste a single trained man, and the sight of the breaches of Badajoz after the storm for a moment unnerved even his iron sternness.

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