grievousness
41grievous — adjective formal (of something bad) very severe or serious. Derivatives grievously adverb grievousness noun Origin ME: from OFr. greveus, from grever (see grieve1) …
42bitterness — n. 1. Bitter taste, acridity, acridness. 2. Intensity, poignancy, grievousness, severity. 3. Spleen, gall, rankling, rancor, heart burning, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, spite, enmity, ill will, bad blood. 4. Asperity, acerbity, severity …
43heaviness — n. 1. Gravity, weight, ponderousness. 2. Oppressiveness, grievousness, severity. 3. Languor, dulness, stupidity, sluggishness. 4. Dejection, depression, sadness, melancholy, despondency, gloom, low spirits, depression of spirits …
44grievous — adjective 1 formal very serious and likely to be very harmful: a grievous error | a grievous shortage of hospital beds 2 especially literary a grievous wound or pain is severe and hurts a lot grievously adverb grievousness noun (U) …
45grossness — n 1., completeness, totality, absoluteness, unqualifiedness, unmitigatedness; rankness, sheerness, arrantness, outrightness, downrightness. 2. flagrancy, blatancy, glaringness, obviousness, manifestness, plainness; outrageousness, reprehen… …
46sadness — n 1. unhappiness, joylessness, cheerlessness, uncheerfulness; discouragement, disheartenment, downheartedness; dolefulness, grievousness, plaintiveness; gloominess, bleakness; sorrowfulness, wretchedness, miserableness, woefulness. 2. dejection,… …
47severity — n 1. harshness, rigor, rigorousness, stringency, asperity, strictness, roughness, extremity; inflexibility, unbendingness, unyieldingness, obdurateness, flintiness; persistence, unremittance, inexorability, implacability, relentlessness;… …
48severity — se•ver•i•ty [[t]səˈvɛr ɪ ti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) harshness, sternness, or rigor 2) austere simplicity, as of style or taste 3) intensity or sharpness, as of cold or pain 4) grievousness; hard or trying character or effect 5) rigid exactness or… …
49grievous — /ˈgrivəs / (say greevuhs) adjective 1. causing grief or sorrow: grievous news. 2. flagrant; atrocious: a grievous fault. 3. full of or expressing grief; sorrowful: a grievous cry. 4. Obsolete burdensome or oppressive. {Middle English grevous,… …
50severity — /səˈvɛrəti/ (say suh veruhtee) noun (plural severities) 1. harshness, sternness, or rigour. 2. austere simplicity, as of style or taste. 3. violence or sharpness, as of cold, pain, etc. 4. grievousness; hard or trying character or effect. 5.… …
