Sternness synonyms

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austerity
An austere act, habit, practice, or manner
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hardness
The quality of being hard.
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harshness
The quality of being harsh.
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rigidity
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.
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rigor
Extreme hardship or difficulty
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rigorousness
The property of being rigorous, strictness.
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severity
Gravity, as of expression
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strictness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
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toughness
(Uncountable) The state of being tough
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easy (related)
The fact or condition of being rigorous and unsparing
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plainness (related)
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suavity (related)
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kindliness (related)
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haughtiness (related)
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Find another word for sternness. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sternness, like: austerity, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, severity, strictness, stringency, toughness and easy.
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Sternness 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.

  • During his stay in New Orleans he proclaimed martial law, and carried out his measures with unrelenting sternness, banishing from the town a judge who attempted resistance.

  • 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.

  • The preaching of John the Baptist was thus in sympathy with the ideals of his generation, though the sternness of the repentance which he set forth as the necessary preparation for entrance into the new kingdom of heaven, which was to be made visible on earth, was not less repugnant to the men of his day than of later times.

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