Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the exact phrase excessive sternness and severity.

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1. rigor
2. strictness
3. harshness
4. rigidity
5. blockiness
6. flaccidity
7. flintiness
8. gravity
9. grievousness
10. hecticness
11. laciness
12. languidness
13. limpness
14. lithesomeness
15. oblateness
16. pendulosity
17. precipitousness
18. sandiness
19. serosity
20. severity
21. slipperiness
22. snugness
23. stern
24. sternness
25. stockiness
26. sullenness
27. tepidity
28. tepidness
29. termagancy
30. terseness
31. threadiness
32. tightness
33. toilsomeness
34. trimness
35. unctuosity
36. uptightness
37. woodenness
38. algidity
39. angularity

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