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sternness: uncompromising resolution; the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable"

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meticulousness collapse: strict attention to minute details

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inflexibility collapse: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe; a lack of physical flexibility

rigidity collapse: the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

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hardness collapse: the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail"; the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale

relentlessness collapse: mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit"

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