severidad

f.

1 severity, harshness.

2 strictness.

3 gravity, severity.

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severidad

► nombre femenino

1 (gravedad) severity, harshness

2 (rigurosidad) strictness

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noun f.

severity

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SF

1) [en el trato] severity

2) (=austeridad) sternness

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femenino (de castigo, pena) severity, harshness; (de padre, educador) strictness

la severidad del clima — the harshness of the climate

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= strictness, severity, harshness.

Ex. They see people as marked by one particular attribute, cleverness, or kindness, or strictness, or being a good shot, and they mind whether things are right or wrong.

Ex. Exuberance and enthusiasm are proper to the young, as Quintillian remarked: 'The young should be daring and inventive and should rejoice in their inventions, even though correctiveness and severity are still to be acquired'.

Ex. Ghobadi does not flinch from confronting the harshness of daily life in Iran in this portrayal of a small village high in the mountains.

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* poca severidad = lenience, leniency.

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femenino (de castigo, pena) severity, harshness; (de padre, educador) strictness

la severidad del clima — the harshness of the climate

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= strictness, severity, harshness.

Ex: They see people as marked by one particular attribute, cleverness, or kindness, or strictness, or being a good shot, and they mind whether things are right or wrong.

Ex: Exuberance and enthusiasm are proper to the young, as Quintillian remarked: 'The young should be daring and inventive and should rejoice in their inventions, even though correctiveness and severity are still to be acquired'.

Ex: Ghobadi does not flinch from confronting the harshness of daily life in Iran in this portrayal of a small village high in the mountains.

* poca severidad = lenience, leniency.

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severidad

feminine

(de un castigo, una pena) severity, harshness; (de un padre, educador) strictness

la severidad del clima the harshness o severity of the climate

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severidad sustantivo femenino (de castigo, pena) severity, harshness;
(de padre, educador) strictness;
(de clima) harshness
severidad sustantivo femenino
1 (de carácter, de trato) strictness
2 (de un castigo, una pérdida) severity
3 (del clima) harshness
'severidad' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
inhibir
- blandura
- dureza
- suavizar
English:
lightly
- rigor
- rigour
- severity
- sternness
- strictness
- harshly
- severely
- strictly

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severidad nf

1. [de persona] strictness;

[de castigo] severity, harshness

2. [de clima] harshness, severity;

[de enfermedad] seriousness

3. [de gesto, aspecto] sternness

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severidad

f severity

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severidad nf

1) : harshness, severity

2) : strictness