severity
nounHow many syllables in severity?
There are 4 syllables in the word severity.How to pronounce severity:
Definition of severity:
- severity (noun):
- used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather.
- the quality or state of being severe the condition of being very bad, serious, unpleasant, or harsh
Synonyms for severity:
asperity
austereness
austerity
badness
callousness
determination
distressfulness
exactingness
firmness
foulness
grimness
gruffness
hardness
hardship
harshness
inclemency
inflexibility
intensity
raininess
resolve
rigidity
rigidness
rigor
rigorousness
rigour
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Antonyms for severity:
acceptance
balminess
benevolence
benignity
blandness
calmness
charity
clemency
compassion
concern
consideration
feeling
flexibility
floppiness
forbearance
forgiveness
gentility
gentleness
good-heartedness
humaneness
humanity
indulgence
insipidity
kind-heartedness
kindheartedness
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- regalia
- pontificate
- oratory
- initiative
- incarnation
- electronics
- culminating
- untrustworthy
- prematurely
- ornamented
- menagerie
- forseeable
- compensation
- charioteer
- seriousness
- acquaintances
- residency
- inundation
- fluctuating
- communique
- anapestic
- inessential
- horseplayer
- genealogy
- hysteria
- catamaran
- antechamber
- refrigerate
- jalapeno
- equitable
- enervated
- confirmation
- reconstruction
- primordial
- evasively
- depreciation
- controllable
- unceasingly
- photocopy
- coprophilic
- voluntary
- self-complacent
- propensity
- disappearing
- uncreative
- estimating
- admonishment
- unstintingly
- remonstration
- macchiato
- … more
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