severeness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for severeness
Noun
  • The student's friends took her to a nearby apartment to rest after the fall, not realizing the severity of her injuries.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 3 May 2025
  • But for the most part, people don’t get the severity.
    Miranda Mullings and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • In Canada, modest supply management policies keep farmgate and farmer pay prices higher, while disincentivizing the buildout of fast-paced, crowded and large scale production facilities at the heart of avian flu virulence.
    Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Everything about the movement surprised political observers: its virulence, its magnitude, its provincial origins, its apparent lack of structure and leadership, and its adamant refusal to be co-opted by existing political parties and unions.
    Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
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“Severeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severeness. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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