Sterness or Sternness: How To spell?
The word Sterness is misspelled against Sternness, a noun meaning "The quality or state of being stern."
Sternness has double "nn" is mispronounced as "n"Remember double 'NN' in between the strings ster & ess which should not be misspelled with single 'N'
Wrong Spelling:  ster-n-ess  Correct Spelling:  ster-nn-ess 
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