Similar words: stubbornness, bitterness, keenness, meanness, openness, stern, astern, brazenness. Meaning: ['stɜrnnɪs /'stɜː-] 
n. 1. the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding 2. uncompromising resolution.
n. 1. the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding 2. uncompromising resolution. 
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1. They were awed into silence by the sternness of her voice.
2. Her demeanor changed completely and her sternness melted away.
3. The sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable.
4. Your eyes show sternness, but more kindness and care.
5. He looked on his pupil with sternness.
6. Your eyes show sternness, But they keep more kindness and care. Thank you, dear Daddy.
7. Your eyes show sternness, but they keep more kindness and care.
8. Your eyes show sternness, but they keep more kindness and care. Thank you, dear daddy.
9. Your eyes show sternness, but more kindness and care. Thank you for making me feel important.
10. The patrol leader, with a show of sternness, demanded, " Who is this? "
11. She was a forceful personality who did not suffer fools gladly, but her sternness was accompanied by grace and Victorian courtesy.http://sentencedict.com/sternness.html
12. But the attitudes toward weight will continue to be ambivalent at best — ranging from Bourdain's acerbic take to Appleman's almost Calvinistic sternness about his own body.
13. Roosevelt solved the difficulty by judicious mixture of courtesy and sternness.
14. I watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness.
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