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abdalla
 
Reply Sat 2 Mar, 2013 10:34 am
which one is correct
the weather's .........
1)severe
2)severity
3)severely
4)severeness
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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Sat 2 Mar, 2013 11:30 am
@abdalla ,
It depends on what you are saying.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 2 Mar, 2013 11:37 am
I agree, context is everything in these instances. However, i don't believe there is such a word as "severeness"--that's why we have the word severity.
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Reply Sat 2 Mar, 2013 12:00 pm
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
However, i don't believe there is such a word as "severeness"--that's why we have the word severity.


Collins English Dictionary allows it as a synonym for 'severity', although it appears to be unknown in Oxford or Cambridge. I agree that 'severity' is preferable, but a new site to me, onelook.com (a web search aggregator) shows this... (I daresay that some may be safely ignored, and probably some are copies of others)

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General dictionaries General (12 matching dictionaries)

severeness: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
severeness: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
severeness: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
severeness: Wordnik [home, info]
severeness: Wiktionary [home, info]
severeness: Dictionary.com [home, info]
severeness: Rhymezone [home, info]
severeness: Free Dictionary [home, info]
severeness: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
severeness: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
severeness: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
severeness: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
severeness: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
severeness: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
severeness: Medical dictionary [home, info]

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Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 2 Mar, 2013 12:10 pm
If "severeness" is used sufficiently often, it becomes an acceptable word by default. However, as i've said, we already have the word severity. This is one of those words, the use of which makes the speaker look rather ill-educated.
Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Sat 2 Mar, 2013 12:16 pm
@abdalla ,
The guys are correct about the sentence fragment making a difference.

Not really sure if the word "weather's" is a contraction meaning "weather is" or if it is a possessive.

Makes a difference.
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contrex
 
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Reply Sat 2 Mar, 2013 12:24 pm
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
If "severeness" is used sufficiently often, it becomes an acceptable word by default.


Like begs the question when raises is meant? Or decimate?
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