Severity
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The state of being severe. The degree of something undesirable; badness.
Example sentence: I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.
Badness
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The quality of being bad.