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Sourness vs Severity - What's the difference?

sourness | severity | Related terms |

Sourness is a related term of severity.


As nouns the difference between sourness and severity

is that sourness is the quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities while severity is the state of being severe.

sourness

English

Noun

(es)
  • The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.
    • 1811' ''Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to '''sourness , in her aspect.'' — Jane Austen, ''Sense and Sensibility , Chapter 2.1.

    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.