Inclemency

n.	1.
	1.	The state or quality of being inclement; lack of clemency; lack of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. - Bp. Hall.
	2.	Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather); roughness; storminess; rigor; severe cold, wind, rain, or snow. The inclemencies of morning air. - Pope. The rude inclemency of wintry skies. - Cowper.

Noun	1.	inclemency - weather unsuitable for outdoor activities Synonyms: bad weather, inclementness
	2.	inclemency - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" Synonyms: rigor, rigour, severity, stiffness, hardness, harshness

absolute zero, acuteness, algidity, animality, astringency, atrocity, austerity, barbarity, bitterness, bleakness, bloodlust, briskness, brutality, chill, chilliness, cold, coldness, cool, coolness, coolth, crispness, cruelty, cryogenics, cryology, decrease in temperature, destructiveness, extremity, ferociousness, fierceness, flintiness, force, freezing point, freshness, frigidity, frostiness, furiousness, gelidity, grimness, hardness, harshness, heartlessness, iciness, impetuosity, inexorableness, inhumanity, intense cold, intensity, keenness, low temperature, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, nip, nippiness, pitilessness, rawness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, savagery, severity, sharp air, sharpness, short shrift, sternness, stringency, tender mercies, terrorism, uncompassionateness, unfeelingness, unforgivingness, ungentleness, unmercifulness, unremorsefulness, unsympatheticness, unyieldingness, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence

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