.what is severity
1 Catastrophic-Complete mission failure, death, or loss of system. 2  Critical-Major mission degradation, severe injury, occupational illness or major system damage. 3  Moderate-Minor mission degradation, injury, minor occupational illness, or minor system damage. severe. a clinical qualifier that describes a disease that is so severe that it dominates all other activities. severe combined immune deficiency disease (SCID) (syndrome). see combined immune deficiency syndrome (disease) . Acquisition Risk Management Impact. 1  Critical (C) - An event that, if it occurred, would cause program failure (inability to achieve minimum acceptable requirements). 2  Serious (S) - An event that, if it occurred, would cause major cost and schedule increases. a rating error where ratings are consistently overly negative especially with the regard to sex-influenced character to the performance or ability of participants. Compare leniency error. severe. adjective Referring to the intensity (severity) of a specific event, as in mild, moderate or severe. The term “severe” is not synonymous with serious, as an event may be of acute distress but relatively minor medical significance (e.g., a severe headache). The noun SEVERITY has 4 senses: 1. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather. 2. something hard to endure. 3. extreme plainness. 4. excessive sternness. Familiarity information: SEVERITY used as a noun is uncommon. Hypernyms (severity is a kind of...): intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense). Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of severity): foulness; raininess ((of weather) the badness of the weather). distressfulness; seriousness (the quality of arousing fear or distress). 1 Serious (S) - An event that, if it occurred, would cause major cost and schedule increases. 2  Secondary requirements may not be achieved. 3  Moderate (Mo) - An event that, if it occurred, would cause moderate cost and schedule increases, but important requirements would still be met. 1 Critical-Major mission degradation, severe injury, occupational illness or major system damage. 2  Moderate-Minor mission degradation, injury, minor occupational illness, or minor system damage. 3  Negligible-Less than minor mission degradation, injury, occupational illness, or minor system damage. 1 Critical (C) - An event that, if it occurred, would cause program failure (inability to achieve minimum acceptable requirements). 2  Serious (S) - An event that, if it occurred, would cause major cost and schedule increases. 3  Secondary requirements may not be achieved.
It is the intensity (severity) of a specific event, as in mild, moderate or severe.