severity

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If I had to put a severity to it, I'd guess severe.

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Quick take

used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of severity gathered in one view.

noun

used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

noun

something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

noun

extreme plainness

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for severity.

noun

used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

noun

something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

noun

extreme plainness

noun

excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

Example sentences

If I had to put a severity to it, I'd guess severe.

The severity of crashes is physics, but the frequency can't be looked at in isolation.

For humans, you can predict the severity of a flu outbreak based on how well adjusted the virus is to humans.

My take on it wasn't that this was so much to screw with GitHub as it was to show the Rails team the true severity of an issue they downplayed.

Also in general the severity of the charge is directly proportional to the quantity of drugs.

But I genuinely do not view as paranoia my belief that the frequency and severity of stories like this mean that MongoDB is still not a good technology choice.

So when this crisis bubbled up - there was no hesitation in action since there was a scientist/engineer in top leadership who was able to communicate to the board the severity of the situation.

At the bottom of the page, the yellow icon is associated with 'performance issues'.If there's one thing that's shocked me about AWS, it's the total failure to acknowledge the severity of service disruptions.

Some of them have double counted numbers, while others have made inappropriate international comparisons These inaccurate measurements may have played a role in exaggerated evaluations of the severity of Canadas debt problems.

The Minnesota reform, which was the example for the federal reform, set up guidelines based on a "severity score" of the offense--so that for the first time legislative statutes from many different decades were compared as to the actual social harm resulting from each offense, based on community standards as of the time of the reform--and on a "criminal history score" of the offender, so that prison time was reserved only for the most dangerous repeat offenders.