sternness

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noun

1. the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
- the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable
• Derivationally related forms:
stern
• Hypernyms:
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour,
severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
2. uncompromising resolution
• Syn:
strictness
• Derivationally related forms:
strict (for: strictness), stern
• Hypernyms:
unpermissiveness, restrictiveness
• Hyponyms:
Puritanism, severity, severeness, harshness, rigor,
rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness