| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | rigor |
| 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: | scarcity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency |
| Synonyms: | dearth, drought, exiguity, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, paucity, rareness, rarity, scantiness, shortage, sparsity, stringency, uncommonness, want |
| Antonyms: | abundance, commonness, excess, surplus |
| Main Entry: | hardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | rigidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | rigorousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | sternness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, strictness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | strictness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, stringency, toughness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | toughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, sharpness, sternness, strictness, stringency, unkindness |