English Dictionary

sternness

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) The state or quality of being stern. / (countable) The result or product of being stern.

日本語の意味

（1）厳しさ、厳格さ、厳粛さ、つまり厳しく規律ある性質や態度の状態を表す。 / （2）（その性質がもたらす）厳しさの結果、または厳格な態度の現れ

The teacher's sternness kept the classroom calm, but it also made her students afraid to ask questions.

その教師の厳しさが教室を落ち着かせたが、生徒たちは質問をするのを恐れるようになった。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.

There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

意味（2）

(countable) The result or product of being stern.

sternnesses （ plural ）