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Severity vs Strictness - What's the difference?

severity | strictness |

As nouns the difference between severity and strictness

is that severity is the state of being severe while strictness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being strict.

severity

English

Noun

(severities)
  • The state of being severe.
  • The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.
    • The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.

    strictness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
  • :Discipline calls for a certain strictness .
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.}}
  • (countable) The result or product of being strict.