Hyphenation of severity

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word severity? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

sever-i-ty

Definitions of severity:

1.	Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
2.	Something hard to endure The asperity of northern winters
3.	Extreme plainness
4.	Excessive sternness Severity of character The harshness of his punishment was inhuman The rigors of boot camp

Synonyms of severity:

noun	badness, intensity, intensiveness
noun	asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, difficulty, difficultness
noun	harshness, rigor, rigour, inclemency, hardness, stiffness, sternness, strictness

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.