Comparing the "severity" of words of amount, degree, etc


I'm looking for lists of words/phrases of degree, ordered by how strong they
are relative to each other.

For an example in English, I ran across this research recently:
<http://www.businessinsider.com/quantitative-perceptions-of-probability-
words-2017-5>

I was wondering if there are any similar lists for:

  1. Degree... わずか ＜ なかなか ＜ とっても etc
  2. Amount... すこし ＜ そこばく ＜ たくさん etc
  3. Frequency... めったに ＜ よく ＜ しょっちゅう ＜ いつも etc
  4. Severity/strength... やんわり ＜ つよく ＜ たいへん etc
  5. Surety... たしか ＜ きっと ＜ ひつぜん etc

By the way, I see a lot of questions about pairs of words on this list, i.e.
"is this word more or less on the degree scale than this"... so if a good
answer can be found that has a bunch of examples hierarchicalized, it might
answer a lot of future questions all at once. 一石無限鳥 :-)




> Degree... わずか ＜ なかなか ＜ とっても etc

**暑｛あつ｝さ/寒｛さむ｝さ**  
As for the degree of temperature, we say like 少｛すこ｝し暑｛あつ｝い / 少｛すこ｝し寒｛さむ｝い for
_it's hot a little_ / _it's cold a little_.

> Adverbs to describe the degeree of hotness/coldness are like:  
>  **わずか** に ＜ ほんの少し ≒ 気持｛きも｝ち ＜ ちょっと ≒ 少し ＜ 大分｛だいぶ｝ ≒ **なかなか** ＜ いい加減｛かげん｝（に）
> ≒ 相当｛そうとう｝（に） ≒ かなり ＜ すごく ≒ とても/ **とっても** ≒ うんと ＜ 無茶｛むちゃ｝苦茶｛くちゃ｝（に） ＜
> 死｛し｝にそうに

Hierarchicalized adverbs written in the above list could be applied commonly
to express the degree of amount, frequency, severity/strength and surety
except for some adverbs. The typical exception is 死にそうに, that is used only in
severity or in something like that.

Amount... すこし ＜ そこばく?(← obsolete word) **かなり** ＜ たくさん etc  
Frequency... めったに ＜ よく ＜ しょっちゅう ＜ いつも etc  
Severity/strength... やんわり? ＜ つよく? ＜ たいへん etc  
Surety... たしか? ＜ きっと ＜ ひつぜん? **確実｛かくじつ｝（に）** ＜ **絶対｛ぜったい｝（に）** etc




> Degree... わずか ＜ なかなか ＜ とっても etc

**暑｛あつ｝さ/寒｛さむ｝さ**  
As for the degree of temperature, we say like 少｛すこ｝し暑｛あつ｝い / 少｛すこ｝し寒｛さむ｝い for
_it's hot a little_ / _it's cold a little_.

> Adverbs to describe the degeree of hotness/coldness are like:  
>  **わずか** に ＜ ほんの少し ≒ 気持｛きも｝ち ＜ ちょっと ≒ 少し ＜ 大分｛だいぶ｝ ≒ **なかなか** ＜ いい加減｛かげん｝（に）
> ≒ 相当｛そうとう｝（に） ≒ かなり ＜ すごく ≒ とても/ **とっても** ≒ うんと ＜ 無茶｛むちゃ｝苦茶｛くちゃ｝（に） ＜
> 死｛し｝にそうに

Hierarchicalized adverbs written in the above list could be applied commonly
to express the degree of amount, frequency, severity/strength and surety
except for some adverbs. The typical exception is 死にそうに, that is used only in
severity or in something like that.

Amount... すこし ＜ そこばく?(← obsolete word) **かなり** ＜ たくさん etc  
Frequency... めったに ＜ よく ＜ しょっちゅう ＜ いつも etc  
Severity/strength... やんわり? ＜ つよく? ＜ たいへん etc  
Surety... たしか? ＜ きっと ＜ ひつぜん? **確実｛かくじつ｝（に）** ＜ **絶対｛ぜったい｝（に）** etc

