Severity vs Solemnity - What's the difference?
severity | solemnity |
The state of being severe.
The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.
The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.
* Addison
* J. Edwards
An instance or example of solemn behavior; a rite or ceremony performed with reverence.
* Alexander Pope
* Atterbury
(legal) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
As nouns the difference between severity and solemnity
is that severity is the state of being severe while solemnity is the quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.severity
English
Noun
(severities)- The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.
solemnity
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Noun
(solemnities)- the solemnity of a funeral
- The stateliness and gravity of the Spaniards shows itself in the solemnity of their language.
- These promises were often made with great solemnity and confirmed with an oath.
- Great was the cause; our old solemnities / From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise, / But saved from death, our Argives yearly pay / These grateful honours to the god of day.
- The forms and solemnities of the last judgment.