Synonyms of sternness

Noun

1. sternness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness

usage: the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable"

2. sternness, strictness, unpermissiveness, restrictiveness

usage: uncompromising resolution