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| Main Entry: | severity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | asperity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, harshness, rigor, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, unkindness |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pity, softness |
| Main Entry: | classicism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simple style; regularity, restraint |
| Synonyms: | balance, clarity, class, dignity, elegance, excellence, finish, formality, grandeur, lucidity, majesty, nobility, objectivity, polish, proportion, propriety, purity, refinement, rhythm, severity, simplicity, sobriety, symmetry, Atticism, Ciceronianism, Hellenism, aesthetic principle, classicalism, conventional formality, formal style, grand style, high art, neoclassicism, pure taste, rationalism, sublimity |
| Main Entry: | cruelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
| Synonyms: | barbarism, barbarity, coarseness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, inhumanity, insensibility, malice, persecution, rancor, sadism, severity, spite, torture, venom, wickedness, animality, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coldness, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, insensitiveness, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, ruthlessness, savageness, savagery, spitefulness, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | fury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, wrath |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, asperity, energy, ferocity, fire, flare-up, force, frenzy, furor, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, might, passion, power, rage, rise, severity, sore, stew*, storm*, turbulence, vehemence, violence, boiling point, conniption, fierceness, impetuosity, rabidity, rampancy, savagery, slow burn, tempestuousness |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
| Antonyms: | calm, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion, force |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, anxiety, ardor, concentration, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, energy, excess, excitement, extreme, extremity, fanaticism, ferment, ferocity, fervor, fire, force, fury, keenness, magnitude, might, nervousness, potency, power, severity, strain, strength, tension, vehemence, vigor, violence, volume, deepness, ferociousness, fervency, fierceness, forcefulness, high pitch, intenseness, sharpness, tenseness, weightiness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, dullness, laziness, lethargy, moderation, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | oppression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misery, hardship |
| Synonyms: | abuse, autocracy, brutality, calamity, coercion, compulsion, conquering, control, cruelty, despotism, dictatorship, domination, fascism, force, harshness, injury, injustice, iron hand*, maltreatment, martial law, persecution, severity, suffering, torment, abusiveness, forcibleness, hardness, overthrowing, subduing, subjection, tyrrany |
| Antonyms: | cheer, delight, happiness, joy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rigor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strictness, exactness |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, affliction, asperity, austerity, conscientiousness, difficulty, firmness, hardship, harshness, intolerance, ordeal, precision, privation, roughness, severity, stiffness, suffering, tenacity, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, visitation, conventionalism, exactitude, hardness, inclemency, inflexibility, meticulousness, obduracy, preciseness, punctiliousness, rigidity, sternness, stringency, thoroughness, traditionalism |
| Antonyms: | ease, elasticity, flexibility, leniency, pliability |
| Main Entry: | simplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of complication, |
| Synonyms: | candor, chastity, clarity, clearness, ease, easiness, homogeneity, innocence, integrity, modesty, monotony, naiveté, purity, restraint, severity, uniformity, unity, classicality, clean lines, directness, elementariness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, lack of adornment, naturalness, obviousness, openness, plainness, primitiveness, singleness, sophistication artlessness, straightforwardness |
| Antonyms: | complexity, complication, difficulty, difficultness |
| Main Entry: | tyranny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dictatorship |
| Synonyms: | autocracy, coercion, cruelty, despotism, domination, fascism, oppression, reign of terror*, severity, totalitarianism, totality, absolutism, authoritarianism, high-handedness, imperiousness, monocracy, oligarchy, peremptoriness, terrorism, unreasonableness |
| Antonyms: | democracy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | violence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme force, intensity |
| Synonyms: | abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, severity, storm, struggle, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, bestiality, brute force, destructiveness, fierceness, murderousness, savagery, sharpness, storminess, terrorism, wildness |
| Antonyms: | peace, passivity, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | degree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unit of measurement |
| Synonyms: | amount, caliber, dimension, division, expanse, extent, gauge, gradation, grade, height, intensity, interval, length, limit, line, link, mark, notch, period, plane, point, proportion, quality, quantity, range, rate, ratio, reach, rung, scale, scope, severity, shade, size, space, stage, standard, step, stint, strength, tenor, term, tier, amplitude, stair |
| Main Entry: | acuteness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intensity |
| Synonyms: | severity, fierceness, forcefulness |
| Main Entry: | gravity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seriousness, importance |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, concern, consequence, exigency, severity, significance, solemnity, urgency, hazardousness, momentousness, perilousness, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | frivolity, levity, silliness, unimportance, inconsequentiality |
| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | the quality of being rough in conduct |
| Synonyms: | coarseness, harshness, roughhouse, rudeness, severity, brusqueness, crudeness, gruffness, hardness |
| Antonyms: | courtesy, gentility, kindness, politeness |
| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grimness, barrenness |
| Synonyms: | bareness, economy, severity, simplicity, baldness, dourness, plainness, primitiveness, rusticism, spareness, spartanism, starkness, unadornment |
| Antonyms: | elaborateness, luxuriousness |
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