Severity vs. Priority — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Severity and Priority
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Severity
The state or quality of being severe.
Priority
Precedence, especially established by order of importance or urgency.
Severity
The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.
Priority
An established right to precedence.
Severity
The state of being severe.
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Priority
An authoritative rating that establishes such precedence.
Severity
The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.
The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.
Priority
A preceding or coming earlier in time.
Severity
The quality or state of being severe.
Priority
Something afforded or deserving prior attention.
Severity
Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
Priority
An item's relative importance.
He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
Severity
The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.
Priority
A goal of a person or an organisation.
She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
Severity
Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
Priority
The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.
Severity
Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
Confining myself to the severity of truth.
Priority
A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
Severity
Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
Priority
(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
Severity
Something hard to endure;
The asperity of northern winters
Priority
(transport) right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users
Severity
Excessive sternness;
Severity of character
The harshness of his punishment was inhuman
The rigors of boot camp
Priority
The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
Priority
Precedence; superior rank.
Priority
Status established in order of importance or urgency;
...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals
National independence takes priority over class struggle
Priority
Preceding in time
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