sternity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

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"Jemmy eyed him but his sternity rotted to foolishness in his stare."
"His attitude is that of compassion combind^([sic]) with sternity."
"It is, for lack of a better tag, a public school with a lot of “sternity.”"
"wondering what’s wrong / with all these people / how can they live with their sternity"

From stern + -ity.

sternness

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