INCLEMENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inclemency mean? 

• INCLEMENCY (noun)
  The noun INCLEMENCY has 2 senses:

1. weather unsuitable for outdoor activities

2. excessive sternness

  Familiarity information: INCLEMENCY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCLEMENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weather unsuitable for outdoor activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bad weather; inclemency; inclementness

Hypernyms ("inclemency" is a kind of...):

atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inclemency"):

raw weather (unpleasantly cold and damp weather)

storminess (the state of being stormy)

cloud cover; cloudiness; overcast (the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds)

turbulence (instability in the atmosphere)

Derivation:

inclement ((of weather or climate) severe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Excessive sternness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

hardness; harshness; inclemency; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity; stiffness

Context example:

the rigors of boot camp

Hypernyms ("inclemency" is a kind of...):

sternness; strictness (uncompromising resolution)

Derivation:

inclement (used of persons or behavior; showing no clemency or mercy)

 Context examples 

Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon; the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)