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SEVERITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessive sternness
Example:
the rigors of boot camp
Synonyms:
hardness; harshness; inclemency; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity; stiffness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("severity" is a kind of...):
sternness; strictness (uncompromising resolution)
Derivation:
severe (unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extreme plainness
Synonyms:
austereness; severeness; severity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("severity" is a kind of...):
plainness (the appearance of being plain and unpretentious)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something hard to endure
Example:
the asperity of northern winters
Synonyms:
asperity; grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("severity" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "severity"):
sternness (the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
Synonyms:
badness; severeness; severity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("severity" is a kind of...):
intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "severity"):
foulness; raininess ((of weather) the badness of the weather)
distressfulness; seriousness (the quality of arousing fear or distress)
Derivation:
severe (very bad in degree or extent)
severe (intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality)
Context examples:
The CTCAE contain a grading scale for each adverse event term representing the severity of the event.
(CDISC SDTM Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Event Grade Terminology V3.0, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A terminology codelist to describe the severity of cardiac valvular stenosis.
(CDISC SDTM Cardiac Valvular Stenosis Severity Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Terminology associated with the cardiac valvular stenosis severity codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC SDTM Cardiac Valvular Stenosis Severity Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
The terminology that includes concepts relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard for the Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) severity.
(CDISC SEND Severity Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
They found that mice without gut bacteria developed autoimmune uveitis much later, and with less severity, compared to control mice with normal gut flora.
(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)
It enabled them to identify markers that they could then measure in MMA patients to assess the severity of the dysfunction in their mitochondria, specifically in the liver.
(Elevated hormone flags liver problems in mice with methylmalonic acidemia, National Institutes of Health)
“And the higher the level of inflammation, the greater the improvement in the severity of depressive symptoms.”
(Anti-inflammatory Drugs Also Fight Depression, Voanews)
She has been suffering since yesterday from brain symptoms of great severity.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Appetite and Eating Disorders: (frequency score x severity score).
(NPI - Appetite/Eating Disorders FxS Score, NCI Thesaurus)
However, had they been married, they would no doubt by their severity as husbands have made up for their softness as suitors; and so will you, I fear.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
