Associations to the word «Sternness»

Wiktionary

STERNNESS, noun. (uncountable) The state or quality of being stern.
STERNNESS, noun. (countable) The result or product of being stern.

Dictionary definition

STERNNESS, noun. The quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable".
STERNNESS, noun. Uncompromising resolution.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope