sternness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being grim, severe, or foreboding

   The sternness of the moor made the traveller uncomfortable.

2. 2
   noun

   The state or quality of being stern.

   There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

3. 3
   noun

   uncompromising resolution

4. 4
   noun

   The result or product of being stern.

From stern + -ness.

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