English to English noun
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used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather |  | source: wordnet30
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something hard to endure |  | Example: the asperity of northern winters
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extreme plainness |  | source: wordnet30
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excessive sternness |  | Example: severity of character the harshness of his punishment was inhuman the rigors of boot camp
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