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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strictness, exactness |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, affliction, asperity, austerity, conscientiousness, conventionalism, difficulty, exactitude, firmness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, intolerance, meticulousness, obduracy, ordeal, preciseness, precision, privation, punctiliousness, rigidity, roughness, severity, sternness, stiffness, stringency, suffering, tenacity, thoroughness, traditionalism, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, visitation |
| Antonyms: | ease, elasticity, flexibility, leniency, pliability |
| Main Entry: | tyranny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dictatorship |
| Synonyms: | absolutism, authoritarianism, autocracy, coercion, cruelty, despotism, domination, fascism, high-handedness, imperiousness, monocracy, oligarchy, oppression, peremptoriness, reign of terror, severity, terrorism, totalitarianism, totality, unreasonableness |
| Antonyms: | democracy |
| Main Entry: | violence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme force, intensity |
| Synonyms: | abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bestiality, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, brute force, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, destructiveness, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fierceness, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, murderousness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, savagery, severity, sharpness, storm, storminess, struggle, terrorism, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, wildness |
| Antonyms: | passivity, peace, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | acuteness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intensity |
| Synonyms: | fierceness, forcefulness, severity |
| Main Entry: | roughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being rough in conduct |
| Synonyms: | brusqueness, coarseness, crudeness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, roughhouse, rudeness, severity |
| Antonyms: | courtesy, gentility, kindness, politeness |
| Main Entry: | ferociousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ferocity |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, brutality, cruelness, depth, extreme, ferment, fervency, fervor, fierceness, fury, intensity, pitch, savagery, severity, vehemence, vehemency, viciousness, violence, wildness |
| Main Entry: | fierceness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ferocity |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, brutality, cruelness, depth, extreme, ferment, ferociousness, fervency, fervor, fury, intensity, pitch, savagery, severity, vehemence, vehemency, viciousness, violence, wildness |
| Main Entry: | graveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gravity |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, concern, consequence, exigency, hazardousness, momentousness, perilousness, sedateness, seriousness, severity, significance, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, staidness, urgency, weightiness |
| Main Entry: | irateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fury |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, asperity, boiling point, conniption, energy, ferocity, fierceness, fire, flare-up, force, frenzy, furor, impetuosity, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, might, passion, power, rabidity, rage, rampancy, rise, savagery, severity, slow burn, sore, stew, storm*, tempestuousness, turbulence, vehemence, violence, wrath, wrathfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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