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n.

The quality or state of being stern.

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    The fact or condition of being rigorous and unsparing: austerity, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, severity, strictness, stringency, toughness. See easy/hard.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: uncompromising resolution
  Synonym: strictness

 
 
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