severity
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5.1
- noun
- /sɪˈvɛrɪti/
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gravedad
- Because of the increasing number and severity of droughts, we're turning more and more to our groundwater.
- severity of symptoms
- severity of injuries
- determine the severity
Now how is this reflecting in severity and deaths and hospitalizations?
- Now how is this reflecting in severity and deaths and hospitalizations?
- And then they pay us bounties based on the severity of the bugs that we find.
- So it's orally administered melatonin in reducing the severity of tinnitus.
- Saline nasal spray that might decrease the severity a little bit.
- Now, different people have different severities of sleep inertia.
- She has another DUI and you don't realize the severity of it until she gets her third one.
- And finally, relying on the number of COVID cases as proof of COVID severity is pointless.
- But it does mean that the vaccines are still working against severity.
- But the how how high the fever is truly has nothing to do with the severity of your illness.
- And that has had fateful consequences not just for our sense of the true severity and scale of this disaster.
- And then at some point, the frequency and severity can change.
- And there are things that you can do at home and avoid at home that will drastically decrease the severity of your chronic pain.
- One is to reduce the severity of the disease, reduce hospitalizations and reduce deaths.
- Basically, we do things that have consequences that can be felt generations later and the severity increases even after we stop doing the thing.
Examples
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Fewer forests means more greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, which in turn increases the severity of climate change.
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Treatment is always necessary because of the intensity and severity of this type of headache.
Academic text (2011) -
I hope you appreciate the severity of the situation.
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- So, what is the severity of the situation?
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I understand the severity of the situation, sir.
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Weather of this severity is no friend of mine, I fear.
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- The severity of this recession will cause more pain before it ends.
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I don't think you understand the severity of the situation.
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The management can be challenging because the clinical presentation and severity of these burns vary widely.
Academic text (2015) -
Doctors are concerned about the severity of her symptoms during the illness.
Synonyms
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3.4
How bad or dangerous a situation is
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8.1
Harsh physical or mental conditions that are hard to bear
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4.1
Very severe or unkind treatment that causes harm
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8.3
A very serious and urgent situation that can cause great harm
How strong and harmful something is, like pain or bad weather
Very harsh conditions that are difficult to live in
Antonyms
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word severity comes from the old Latin word severus, which means 'serious' or 'strict', and you can see the same root in severe. So when we talk about the severity of pain or a storm, we mean how 'serious' or intense the problem is.