sternness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable
Types & categories
- rigor hypernym
Related & opposite
- austere derivation
Sense 2 noun
uncompromising resolution
Types & categories
- unpermissiveness hypernym
- Puritanism hyponym
- rigorousness hyponym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | austere |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | rigor |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exacting |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grim |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rigid |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | unpermissiveness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Puritanism |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | rigorousness |