sternness

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
  2. noun uncompromising resolution

Etymology

From stern + -ness.

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