SEVERITY Copy link • SEVERITYHarshness, rigor, severitas (opposed to facilitas; humanitas; indulgentia): rigor: rigor et severitas (opposed to dementia): duritia: asperitas (roughness): acerbitas (with the infliction of injury, etc.): saevitia (despotic, tyrannical cruelty). Accuracy, extreme care, diligentia. Figuratively (Of the weather, etc.) severitas: asperitas: duritia: severity of the winter, saevitia hiemis (Tac.); rigor hiemis (Justinus): severity of the cold, vis frigorum (Cic.); asperitas, rigor frigorum (Tac.): severity of the climate, duritia caeli (Tac., Ann., 13, 35).